Imani Black Is Creating A Global Network Of Badass Minority Women

Isabella Carapella/HuffPost In October 2020, Imani Black founded Minorities in Aquaculture, a 501C organization designed to open doors for women who want to work in aquaculture, but meet challenges because of race and gender. It isn’t about creating new space for women of color in commercial fishing; it’s bringing us back home, and adding on to that space with representation, connection, and telling our stories,” Black told HuffPost. For HuffPost’s Voices In Food series, Black talked to Carrie Honaker about her graduate work investigating historical minority engagement in Chesapeake fisheries, starting the first nonprofit supporting minority women pursuing aquaculture and growing MIA into a “global network of badass women working the water together.” In January 2020 I was really frustrated with my aquaculture career, and watching ”Chef’s Table” on Netflix to get my mind off it. We are on the foundation of mitigating the social and financial barriers women of color face getting into aquaculture, whether that’s gear, paid internships, certifications or workshops.