Restoring Trust: Healing the Wounds of the Past | Amaha Sellassie

Healing With Angelica Podcast With Guest

Amaha Sellassie

Episode: 110

In understanding our past, we find the strength to rebuild trust for the future and HEAL

Join us as we explore the power of healing the hair. We’ll discuss:

- Historical trauma, and how we can heal from it.

- The impact of unity for our salvation

- How we can foster healing as individual and community

Guest Information:

Amaha Sellassie is an Afrofuturist, peace builder, and social healer. He serves as a Nation Builder in the Africana Village and is an Associate Professor at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. A practitioner scholar and participatory action researcher, he focuses on building trust, healing historical wounds, and promoting equity in health and education.

As former chair of the Dayton Human Relations Council, he advocates for marginalized voices in public policy. Amaha co-founded the Gem City Market, addressing food access issues in West Dayton, and CO-OP Dayton, a coop incubator for a just economy. His work earned him the J.M. Kaplan Foundation’s National Innovation Prize Fellowship.

Internationally, he is a Caux Scholar Fellow trained in peacebuilding and has contributed to community health initiatives in Ethiopia. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Cincinnati, he studies community-based participatory action research for health equity. In his downtime, Amaha enjoys nature, family, and reading at HeArt Dayton.

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