abrahamsesina@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sesina-issak/
Sesina Issak is an undergraduate Cognitive Science student at York University whose work weaves together cultural memory, post-conflict recovery, and speculative imagination. Her research explores how frameworks like Afrofuturism can serve as tools for socio-economic justice, narrative reclamation, and psychological healing. A current DARE recipient, she is conducting research under Dr. Sylvia Bawa on African futurities rooted in decolonial ethics and pan-African solidarity. Originally from Tigray, Ethiopia, Sesina is deeply invested in designing futures—both scholarly and material—that speak to survival, regeneration, and self-determined development in the aftermath of conflict.
Keywords: Post-conflict recovery, Psychological healing, Cognitive science, Systems thinking, Creative resistance