Ayana Jamieson, PhD is a mythologist, and depth psychologist. She is the founder of the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network, a global community founded in 2011, committed to highlighting Octavia Butler’s life and work while creating new works inspired by Butler’s legacy. Her essay, “Far Beyond the Stars” appears in the Black Futures anthology. She has also published in The Feminist Wire, 51 Feminist Thinkers, Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction, Public Books, and elsewhere. She was a featured speaker at the New York Times “A New Climate” on climate change. She is an assistant professor of Ethnic Studies, specializing in African American Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.