Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur is a Washington and Vienna-resident activist, theorist and cultural and community worker. She lectures in political science and world languages and cultures at Howard University, Washington DC, and is currently working on her interdisciplinary doctoral thesis on racism and resistances in the African Diaspora in Austria. Johnston-Arthur is cofounder of PAMOJA – The Movement of the Young African Diaspora and has lectured at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Vienna.
Johnston-Arthur is a member of the workgroup of Remembering Silences, curated by Ahmed Al-Nawas.