Jenna Adjua is a writer and performance poet who has been featured at The Poets Haven, The Way of Mind and Body and various events at the Center for Pan-African Culture at Kent State University. She holds a BA in Pan-African Studies from Kent State University and is a current Fellow in Preterm’s Patients to Advocates program where her work centers reproductive health access, activism and policy. Her undergraduate work explored the relationship between race, gender, sexuality and class as they affect access to resources that positively impact the quality of life for Women of Color.

She finds inspiration between the lines of bulging copper beech tree roots, everyday instances of resilience, and the possibility of making the world a little better for the children who are coming up behind us.

Her years of experience working for two member-owned cooperatives and the Ohio Organizing Collaborative sharpened her interest in building community wealth through a Reproductive Justice lens. As a third generation low income single teenage mother, she writes as a means of survival. Adjua is a current MFA candidate focusing on personal narrative poetry and teaching creative writing in the community. She has taught creative writing workshops for GED and adult literacy educators and others throughout her community. She was the curator of collaborative poetry writing projects at the Ohio Writer’s Conference in 2016 and 2017.

As an editor for the Beginning’s journal for the Ohio Literacy Resource Center she has found a passion for the value of intergenerational narrative writing as a means of resistance and self-definition.