title: Ama Codjoe
text: # Ama Codjoe
  
  Ama Codjoe is an American social justice activist, dancer and a Pushcart-nominated poet.
  
  She was a Cave Canem fellow, a Callaloo Writers Workshop fellow, and one of Black Bottom’s Tuesday Poets. Codjoe received the Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellowship from New York University and is the former Associate Director of Professional Development for the DreamYard Art Center.
  
  ## Education
  
  * Codjoe received her M.F.A. in Dance Performance from Ohio State University.
  