Annick Metefia

SOCIAL WORKER, RACIAL JUSTICE ACTIVIST
& SHAKE! LEGACY PROGRAMME MANAGER

Annick Metefia is a social worker, racial justice activist and writer from France. Annick has been part of Paris-based Black Feminist collective Mwasi since 2015, organising protests, support groups and training spaces for Black women and Black queer people. After several years in Paris supporting refugees and working in different youth clubs, she went on to design and run activism youth programmes in London such as the When We Speak programme at Toynbee Hall and the Take Back the Power project at the Winch.

She also coordinated the development of New Economy Organisers Network (NEON)’s first Black activist international network, KIN. After being a participant on two Voices that Shake! intensive courses in 2017, Annick co-designed and co-wrote the Shake! 10-year Legacy Research report in 2020, a unique radical research project documenting the impact of Shake!. In 2022 Annick became Shake!’s Legacy Programme manager, overseeing the global dissemination of the Shake! Legacy publications through youth-led, creative local and transnational collaborations.

Currently she is also co-organising the 3rd edition of Mwasi’s European Black Feminist Festival Nyansapo, and working as a Mapper of Black Feminist movements in Western Europe for the African American organisation Black Feminist Future.