Chasejamison Akilah Manar-Spears

East Oakland, New Orleans, Caribbean, and West Africa

Cj is a multi-dimensional Pan-Afrikan creative born and raised on Ohlone lands. They are inspired by ancestral expressions of love, internal changemaking, and the creative source of nature. They began creating as a form of navigating mental health, and now create to build ecosystems of self-expression.