Neesha Powell-Ingabire is a coastal Georgia-born-and-raised movement journalist, essayist, and community & cultural organizer living in Atlanta/traditional Muscogee territory. She’s the director of popular education at Press On, a Southern movement media collective.

Neesha reports on the justice movements of the Black, trans, queer, and Southern communities to which she belongs and writes essays to recover her own history and the histories of her ancestors and their ancestral homes. Her writings have appeared in various online and print publications, including Harper’s Bazaar, Oxford American, Scalawag, and Prism.

Her debut book, Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast (published in 2024 by Hub City Press), chips away at coastal Georgia’s facade of beaches and golden marshes to recover undertold Black history alongside personal and family stories. Poets & Writers Magazine recognized her book as one of 2024’s top nonfiction debuts, and Publishers Weekly named it one of 2024’s “big indie books.” Come By Here has also been featured in other outlets, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Electric Literature, Ms. Magazine, NPR, and PBS.