Chinaza Okonkwo

Chinaza Ruth Okonkwo is the Digital Humanities Program Intern. Prior to ACLS, Chinaza graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy with Distinction (Honors) and History and minors in Africana Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Chinaza also graduated with a Master of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. A Beinecke Scholar, Chinaza’s research interests surround Igbo philosophy, gender, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and philosophical issues concerning privacy and technology.
Chinaza received the Marshall Scholarship and spent their first year in the UK pursuing an MPhil at the
University of Cambridge’s Centre for African Studies, with a focus on Igbo philosophy and African
Intellectual History, and their second year pursuing an MSc in Digital Scholarship at the University of
Oxford. She is deeply invested in studying and elevating Black people’s histories, experiences, and
cultures across the diaspora.