“She is clothed with strength and dignity and she laughs at the days to come.”
Proverbs 31:25
What is MOJO?
Mothers Obtaining Justice & Opportunities (MOJO) is a non-profit organization focused on the academic success & holistic wellness of mothers pursuing undergraduate and graduate education. Mojo was created from a history of resistance to systematic oppression manifested through motherhood. With our support of mothers at area colleges, community colleges, and universities, Mojo seeks to eradicate the stigma of motherhood as a hindrance to meaningful creative and career contributions and:
1. Assist women with children in completing their degree programs with academic advisement and support
2. Foster community among mothers on our campuses and encourage cooperative childcare and mother support systems
3. Inspire physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness in college mothers and their children
4. Strengthen mother communities through service learning and engagement with mothering scholarship
Mothers Obtaining Justice & Opportunities (MOJO) is a non-profit organization focused on the academic success & holistic wellness of mothers pursuing undergraduate and graduate education. Mojo was created from a history of resistance to systematic oppression manifested through motherhood. With our support of mothers at area colleges, community colleges, and universities, Mojo seeks to eradicate the stigma of motherhood as a hindrance to meaningful creative and career contributions and:
1. Assist women with children in completing their degree programs with academic advisement and support
2. Foster community among mothers on our campuses and encourage cooperative childcare and mother support systems
3. Inspire physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness in college mothers and their children
4. Strengthen mother communities through service learning and engagement with mothering scholarship
Our Founder
Ebony Olivia Lumumba is an associate professor of English at Jackson State University where she chairs the department and teaches courses in global and American literatures. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Mississippi, her Master of Arts in English from Georgia State University, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Spelman College with a Bachelor of Arts in English.
Ebony is an active scholar with publications that include a chapter in From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Texts of Black Life; an article in the Eudora Welty Review titled “‘Caught in the act of living’”: Welty as a voyeur and witness of black life”; a chapter titled “The Matter of Black Lives in American Literature: Eudora Welty’s Non-Fiction and Photography” in Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-first Century Approaches; and a chapter in the collection New Essays on Welty, Class, and Race titled “Demonstration of Life: Signifying for Social Justice in Eudora Welty’s ‘The Demonstrators’.” Her forthcoming book chapters include “Love This Flesh: Sensuality as a Trauma Response in Toni Morrison Novels” in The Routledge Companion to Toni Morrison and “Capturing Power: Black Women’s Political and Economic Agency in Welty’s Photography and Writing” in Eudora Welty, Multimedia Interactions, and Modernism. Her current book project focuses on mothering and resistance in transnational Black women’s writing.
Mothers Obtaining Justice and Opportunities (MOJO) is an extension of Ebony’s deep-seated commitment to family, justice, and community. She believes that providing opportunities for mothers is justice and seeks to enact radical social change by building and strengthening mother communities. She endeavors to eradicate injustice one mama at a time. Ebony considers her family to be her greatest accomplishment. She is married to Chokwe Antar Lumumba. The couple has two daughters, Alaké and Nubia.
Ebony Olivia Lumumba is an associate professor of English at Jackson State University where she chairs the department and teaches courses in global and American literatures. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Mississippi, her Master of Arts in English from Georgia State University, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Spelman College with a Bachelor of Arts in English.
Ebony is an active scholar with publications that include a chapter in From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Texts of Black Life; an article in the Eudora Welty Review titled “‘Caught in the act of living’”: Welty as a voyeur and witness of black life”; a chapter titled “The Matter of Black Lives in American Literature: Eudora Welty’s Non-Fiction and Photography” in Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-first Century Approaches; and a chapter in the collection New Essays on Welty, Class, and Race titled “Demonstration of Life: Signifying for Social Justice in Eudora Welty’s ‘The Demonstrators’.” Her forthcoming book chapters include “Love This Flesh: Sensuality as a Trauma Response in Toni Morrison Novels” in The Routledge Companion to Toni Morrison and “Capturing Power: Black Women’s Political and Economic Agency in Welty’s Photography and Writing” in Eudora Welty, Multimedia Interactions, and Modernism. Her current book project focuses on mothering and resistance in transnational Black women’s writing.
Mothers Obtaining Justice and Opportunities (MOJO) is an extension of Ebony’s deep-seated commitment to family, justice, and community. She believes that providing opportunities for mothers is justice and seeks to enact radical social change by building and strengthening mother communities. She endeavors to eradicate injustice one mama at a time. Ebony considers her family to be her greatest accomplishment. She is married to Chokwe Antar Lumumba. The couple has two daughters, Alaké and Nubia.
Ebony Olivia Lumumba is an associate professor of English at Jackson State University where she chairs the department and teaches courses in global and American literatures. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Mississippi, her Master of Arts in English from Georgia State University, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Spelman College with a Bachelor of Arts in English.
Ebony is an active scholar with publications that include a chapter in From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Texts of Black Life; an article in the Eudora Welty Review titled “‘Caught in the act of living’”: Welty as a voyeur and witness of black life”; a chapter titled “The Matter of Black Lives in American Literature: Eudora Welty’s Non-Fiction and Photography” in Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-first Century Approaches; and a chapter in the collection New Essays on Welty, Class, and Race titled “Demonstration of Life: Signifying for Social Justice in Eudora Welty’s ‘The Demonstrators’.” Her forthcoming book chapters include “Love This Flesh: Sensuality as a Trauma Response in Toni Morrison Novels” in The Routledge Companion to Toni Morrison and “Capturing Power: Black Women’s Political and Economic Agency in Welty’s Photography and Writing” in Eudora Welty, Multimedia Interactions, and Modernism. Her current book project focuses on mothering and resistance in transnational Black women’s writing.
Mothers Obtaining Justice and Opportunities (MOJO) is an extension of Ebony’s deep-seated commitment to family, justice, and community. She believes that providing opportunities for mothers is justice and seeks to enact radical social change by building and strengthening mother communities. She endeavors to eradicate injustice one mama at a time. Ebony considers her family to be her greatest accomplishment. She is married to Chokwe Antar Lumumba. The couple has two daughters, Alaké and Nubia.
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