Ashanti Dinah Orozco is a doctoral student in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, with a primary field in Romance Languages & Literatures. From a socio-critical perspective of literature, cultural and decolonial studies, her research has focused on investigating and analysing how some literary works by Afro-Latin American writers strain the institutional and monological code of imperial language and contest racism and other forms of oppression through a kind of aesthetic maroonage.

She is the author of the collection of poems Las Semillas del Muntu (The seeds of Muntu) in 2019. Her poems have been translated into Portuguese, English and Bulgarian. Her poetry collection Las semillas del Muntú (2019) was published by Escarabajo Editorial, Editorial Abisinia and New York Poetry Press. She won the Benkos Bioh Award in 2016 as well as the Afrodescent Women Recognition Award in 2019.