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Edem is a PhD student in the Film and Media Department. She holds a first-class undergraduate degree in Communications and recently completed her Master’s degree researching feminist documentary filmmaking in Ghana. She is a journalist turned documentary filmmaker/photographer, feminist and queer activist from Ghana and has almost a decade of working experience. Edem mostly volunteers/ works in activist spaces providing intersectional multimedia and communications support to activist courses and groups. She comes to film as an activist and is interested in ways in which marginalized populations can use documentary filmmaking to self-represent, and trigger social change. She is a cofounder of, and the Director of the African Grad Students’ at Queen’s Club.

Research interests: Documentary filmmaking, Alternative Media/Activist Media Making, Feminism, Queer Activism, Social Justice.