Duaba is a cultural worker, writer, community educator, and grassroots arts administrator whose home is Minneapolis, MN. He was born and raised in New Orleans, where his experiences of anti-Black government systems, socio-ecological disasters, and dysfunctional publicworks shaped his consciousness. By witnessing the ways colonizing institutions and communication systems are used to repress transformative discourse, he turned to publication, facilitation, organizational development, and ritual design as his mediums of choice for counteracting the neo-colonial imagination. He is currently working on two major projects: Confluence: An East Lake Studio for Community Design where he is building a free university for community-led urban development called the Institute for Urban Vitality; and as an organizer in the Wild Path Collective, where he is engaged in a group effort to free up 100-acres of land in the St. Croix River Valley to establish a cultural land commons for Black, Indigenous, and People of Culture.