TSEHAI Publishers  TSEHAI Publishers is an independent, academic press based at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. The press focuses on the diverse knowledge production of various cultures and human experiences, and exists with the purpose of giving a voice to otherwise voiceless writers, cultures, peoples, histories, nations, and regions. TSEHAI also serves as a platform for indigenous African knowledge production by creating an alternative, honest, homegrown narrative of Africa divorced from the cultural bias, value judgments, and historical interpretation and misinformation pervading Western media. It has various imprints, and is run by its founder, exiled Ethiopian journalist and publisher Elias Wondimu. Wondimu founded TSEHAI Publishers in 1997. Their first book was published in 1998 and from then to 2001, he ran the company while also working full-time, as managing editor of the Ethiopian Review and for UCLA-based Chicano journal Aztlán. In 2001, Elias left Aztlán to run TSEHAI full-time. Since then, TSEHAI has published over one hundred books, started academic journals available on JSTOR, and founded five imprints. In 2002, TSEHAI launched its first imprint, the African Academic Press, to fill the void left when Heinemann ceased publishing its famous African Writers Series. In 2007, TSEHAI moved its headquarters to Marymount Institute, at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. Together, Wondimu and Marymount Institute Director Dr. Theresia de Vroom founded Marymount Institute Press, an imprint dedicated to upholding the tenets of the Marian tradition, and has a particular commitment to issues that concern women and spirituality of all traditions. In August 2013, TSEHAI Publishers launched a new venture, Tsehai Films, a production company through which it plans to release documentary films exploring subjects such as media bias and perceptions of Africa. Tsehai Films released two short films on Vimeo in 2013, one exploring photographer Robert Radin's philosophies on art and life, the other looking at the way in which English scholars Richard and Rita Pankhurst made Ethiopia their home. Since then, Tsehai Films has made nearly ten short films available on their Vimeo page - TSEHAI Films. In 2015, TSEHAI launched its third and fourth imprints, Chereka Books, which focuses on publishing literature for children, and Fanos Books which is for self-sponsored books. In 2016, the Harriet Tubman Press was created as an imprint intended to celebrate Black voices in the academic and literary world by showcasing the strength, tenacity, and perseverance of the African American experience in the hopes of empowering the next generation of creatives, leaders, and thinkers.