A joint PhD in Anthropology and Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and former inaugural postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Experimental Ethnography at Penn, Dr. Osei Alleyne also holds an MA in Communications from Temple University. A still active internationally touring professional Canadian Hip hop artist and Spoken word poet of Trinidad & Tobago extract, Osei Alleyne's field research employs a multi-modal ethnography of Reggae, Rastafari, Afrobeat and Hip-hop performance communities and related social justice movements across the African diaspora, with an emphasis on the black Atlantic nexus between Jamaica and Ghana. As Assistant professor of Media Studies and Production at Klein, Dr. Osei Alleyne also writes about African diasporic art and philosophy movements such as afrofuturism, afropolitanism and afropessimism and has published critical commentaries on notable pop culture tomes in the Black Mirror and Black Panther series. Dr. Alleyne's classroom practice is inspired by Freirean and abolitionist pedagogies.