Minna Salami is an author and speaker, and the publisher of Kaleido, a Substack newsletter naming what others miss about the current moment. She is an Open Society Foundations fellow and was previously a senior fellow and programme chair at The New Institute. She is the author of Can Feminism Be African? (Harper Collins, 2025) and Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone (Bloomsbury, 2020), which has been translated into multiple languages. Her writing appears regularly in publications such as The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Ideas Letter, Project Syndicate, and The Philosopher, and she has delivered talks and keynotes at hundreds of gatherings, summits, and conferences around the world—from Brazil to South Africa, China, Jamaica, and Berlin.
She is a Full Member of the Club of Rome and a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader. She sits on the advisory boards of the African Feminist Initiative at Penn State University, the Public Humanities journal at Cambridge University Press, The Feminist Studies journal, as well as on the council of the British Royal Institute of Philosophy.