Esther A. Armah is an international award-winning journalist, a playwright, a speaker, and an author. Esther is chief executive officer of The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice (The AIEJ), a global institute working across Accra, New York, and London. As a journalist she has worked in London, New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. As an author, her book: EMOTIONAL JUSTICE: a Roadmap for Racial Healing was a #1 new release on Amazon in the category ‘General Sociology of Race Relations’ for six straight weeks.
Esther was the Spring 2022 Distinguished Activist in Residence at New York University’s Center for Black Visual Culture. Her Emotional Justice essays are featured in the New York Times best-selling book Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America; the award-winning Love with Accountability, and Charleston Syllabus. She has written five Emotional Justice plays that have been produced and performed in New York, Chicago, and Ghana. For her Emotional Justice work, she won the ‘Community Healer Award’ at the Valuing Black Lives Global Emotional Emancipation Summit in Washington, DC. Esther was named one of ‘Africa’s Women Leaders’ in the 2019 World Women Leadership Congress Awards by CMO Asia and the Africa Leadership Academy.