BIO
Dr. Naaborle Sackeyfio is an Associate Professor of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University of Ohio. She wears multiple hats as a Political Scientist, Energy expert, Embodied leadership expert, and wellness enthusiast, which includes roles as a Mindfulness and Meditation teacher; Yoga teacher; Yoga Nidra teacher; Sound healer and practitioner; Energy practitioner and teacher; international dance fitness teacher; Wellness Retreat facilitator, and more. As a Political Scientist, her research interrogates energy and resource politics, and the intersection between gender and sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is the author of Energy Politics and Rural Development: The Case of Ghana (Palgrave, 2018). Her publications have appeared in the journals such as New Political Science, African Affairs, and Review of Black Political Economy. Her second book project explores African migrant identity and belonging in contemporary Japan. In 2020, she was a fellow at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), an initiative funded by the German Ministry of Education. In 2023, she was a Science Communication Fellow with The University of Rhode Island's Metcalf Institute, Michigan State University's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, and the URI Science and Story Lab.
SElECT PUBLICATIONS
Speaking about my expertise and personal narrative as an Energy scholar and Science Communicator.
Here I was a speaker (speaking) to attendees following the event about my personal narrative as an Energy scholar (about my formative experiences that shaped my work as a scientist and energy scholar).
International Conference on the Political Economy of Just Energy Transitions and Inequality in Africa, Accra Ghana
Speaking about my expertise and personal narrative as an Energy scholar and Science Communicator.