Author: Funlayo Wood
Funlayo is an initiated Ifa-Orisa priestess dedicated to contributing her voice as a scholar-practitioner and advocate of her tradition. She is PhD candidate in African Studies and Religion at Harvard University, where her focus is African Indigenous and African Diasporic Religions and Philosophy, and a lecturer in the African and African Diaspora Studies program at Boston College. Funlayo is a former Junior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions (2011-2012) and also serves as the founding director of the African and Diasporic Religious Studies Association (ADRSA) and Executive Director of the Orisa Community Development Corporation. Visit her at http://scholar.harvard.edu/funlayo.