About me
Ingrid LaFleur, the curatorial consultant for Women of Afrofuturism has immersed herself in the movement for more than two decades. LaFleur serves as a curator, cultural strategist, researcher, theorist, artist, and pleasure activist focused on creating equitable and just futures. Her work emphasizes the necessity of decolonizing the imagination. She has curated several exhibitions, fromManifest Destiny (2019) in Detroit to Futurisms (2022) in Doha, Qatar, in which she included Alisha B. Wormsley’s THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE, translated for the first time into Arabic. In 2017, she ran for mayor of Detroit, her hometown, on an Afrofuturist platform. More recently, LaFleur founded The Afrofuture Strategies Institute (TASI). Her extensive course, Dreamweaving with Dinkinesh provides training and methodologies to help others develop a liberated consciousness and inspire transformative action. She also conducts world builds, a process of collectively imagining an immersive fictional universe where racial bias, systemic racism, and economic oppression no longer exist. Topics explore justice-oriented systems that promote health, healing, and joy, such as envisioning “The Future of Black Motherhood” and “Dear Madam President: A Future Proposed.” A graduate of the historically Black college Spelman, LaFleur earned a Master of Science degree in Foresight from the University of Houston. Practitioners research the future as historians do the past, to make thoughtful choices in the present that shape better futures for organizations, global entities, and humankind. A recognized thought leader, LaFleur has lectured globally at venues such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and Oxford University.
