Media Kit
Aimée Okotie-Oyekan is a prayer towards more loving, healing, earth-based ways of being. Her creative practice is a living ecosystem of offerings that engage artistic and cultural production, education, and community organizing as worldbuilding technologies to facilitate healing, reconstruction of power, and reconnection with the more-than-human world while centering communities most impacted by colonialism, slavery, and the climate crisis.
Music and Poetry
As a performing artist, Aimée's vulnerability is her strength. Appearing on a diversity of stages spanning from local showcases to the Oregon Senate Chamber to the Oregon Country Fair, she uses her storytelling as a healing modality, a practice of bearing witness, a space for radical imagining, a convener of community, and a facilitator of transformative change.
Dear Diary - Live with Band in a Box
Miles of Music Camp 2025
Fossil Free - Live at Peter Street Station
Atlanta, 2025
Story of Self, 2024
Community-Based Projects
Guided by lived experiences as a Black immigrant woman, her passions for earth stewardship and her educational background in biology and urban studies, Aimée builds power with her community to shape healthier, safer, and more inclusive built, natural, and cultural environments.
Aimée served as a community engagement consultant on this project to integrate Black history and culture into Eugene's public park spaces.
Aimée is facilitating a community advisory committee of voices often excluded in community development planning so that Eugene's future policies for land use, housing, and transportation can address legacies of inequity and better serve community needs.
Public Scholarship
Aimée shares stories about her experiences across arts and culture, and advocacy in the public realm
Aimée shares her experiences as a first-time camper at the Americana Song Academy in Sisters, Oregon.
As a Black horse enthusiast, Aimée is no stranger to the lack of diversity in the equestrian world. In this article for Eugene Weekly, Aimée highlights the work of a local nonprofit striving to shift that narrative.
Live Offerings
Catch Aimée at an upcoming event
Aimée will be delivering a keynote address about her work and perspectives on environmental justice on March 3, 2026.
Aimée will be facilitating and performing a poetry workshop titled Poetic Activism: Gentle Militancy for Social Change on October 4th 2025. Details forthcoming.
Aimée's first festival! She'll be performing in a round alongside Alison Mullan-Stout, Allie Chip and Carolyn Shapiro.
In the Media
"[Aimée] is a powerhouse of blazing importance. Her ancestry, intellect, and beauty intersect to create power. It is clear that she is accepting the invitation to facilitate understanding and healing at a seismic level." - Denise Norwood, Pavilanis School of Music
Aimée's poem "The Plan" was originally written and performed for the Department of Land Conservation and Development 50th Anniversary Celebration of Oregon's Land Use System. Here it gets a featured highlight by Central Oregon Land Watch.
Aimée work and thoughts about the state of diversity in Eugene are highlighted in this article for the Chronicle.
