Aleya Kassam

Aleya Kassam is a Kenyan feminist, storyteller, writer and performer. She loves to play with the ways people experience story – from page to stage, screen to speaker, micro fiction to memory poems, docu theatre to participatory filmmaking, blogs to twitter threads. Her work explores the spaces between imagination and memory, often using ritual as a way to access those realms. Her writing has been performed and published around the world, from Nairobi to New York, Kigali to Stuttgart.

She is also ‘The A’, and co-founder of the award-winning content studio, The LAM Sisterhood, which fills the world with stories for African women to feel seen, heard, and beloved, such as the stage show Brazen, and the new children’s podcast KaBrazen. Find her on chanyado.wordpress.com or X and Instagram as @aleyakassam.