Lira Samanta
Community Manager
Lira collaborates with Malaika to grow and support our member community, and her expertise in all things data enables her to also contribute to a wide range of functions, including business development, product ideation, social media marketing, and content strategy.
Favorite Fiction Books
Lilith's Brood and Kindred by Octavia Butler, The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling, Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant, Heavens by Sandra Newman, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Current writing project:
A speculative novel about time-travel, regret, and love
Favorite non-fiction books:
Femme in Public by Alok-Vaid Menon, Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde, I've Got The Light Of Freedom by Charles M. Payne, Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life by Sarah Kaminsky, Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino, Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer
Interests and obsessions:
Speculative and mystery novels, feminist sociology, plant medicine, human anatomy, the splendor of forests and mountains, visual art, electronic music, and programming