

SHORT BIO
Aishatu Ado is a peace technologist, artist, author, AI ethicist, and experiential designer who advocates for social justice and inclusive peaceful futures in exponential technologies. She creates transformative narratives melding postcolonial and Afro-feminist perspectives with indigenous cosmovisions as found in mythology, folklore, and oral literature. Recognized by Lighthouse3 as one of the "Top 100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in AI Ethics", she integrates technologies like Deep Learning, VR/AR, and Blockchain to both protect cultural heritages and facilitate crucial socio-ethical discourse around AI’s effect on the most disadvantaged groups.
As a visual and literary artist, Aishatu pushes the boundary between the real and the artificial. She explores narratives from the past, present, and future that empower, uplift, represent and honor Black experiences.
Her transdisciplinary practice spans speculative fiction, applied sci-fi, poetry, digital illustration, painting,filmmsking with new media. While Aishatu resists any given label, her work is framed by legacies of Africanfuturism, and Afrofeminist philosophies - like her predecessors, she uses science-fiction to reconfigure the present into an exhilarating vision of the future.
LONG BIO
Aishatu Ado is a peace technologist, artist, author, AI ethicist, and experiential designer who advocates for social justice and inclusive peaceful futures in exponential technologies. She creates transformative narratives melding postcolonial and Afro-feminist perspectives with indigenous cosmovisions as found in mythology, folklore, and oral literature. Recognized by Lighthouse3 as one of the "Top 100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in AI Ethics", she integrates technologies like Deep Learning, VR/AR, and Blockchain to both protect cultural heritages and facilitate crucial socio-ethical discourse around AI’s effect on the most disadvantaged groups.
As a visual and literary artist, she explores quantum storytelling, an approach based on interconnectedness, embeddedness, and entanglement, to empower, uplift, represent and honor Black experiences.
Her transdisciplinary practice spans speculative fiction, applied sci-fi, poetry, illustration, exponential technologies and filmmaking with new media. While Aishatu resists any given label, her work is framed by legacies of Africanfuturism- like her predecessors, she uses science-fiction to reconfigure the present into an exhilarating vision of the future.
Aishatu Ado is a visual and literary artist whose work interweaves postcolonial and Afro-feminist perspectives with indigenous cosmovisions derived from mythology, folklore, and oral literature, sculpting transformative narratives. Her embrace of quantum storytelling—deeply anchored in interconnectedness, embeddedness, and entanglement—acts as a compelling medium to amplify, celebrate, and honor Black experiences.
Aishatu was commissioned to create an NFT artwork that captivated over 10,000 investors. She was handpicked to craft an exclusive P&G Signal NFT for a Procter and Gamble innovation conference, a piece made available to only 750 attendees. Further solidifying her reputation as a collaborator with a purpose, Aishatu's artwork was included in the "Love Mandela NFT project" by House of Mandela Art. Created in support of the Nelson Mandela Memorial Garden, "Legacy of Peace," integrates a 2003 original by Nelson Mandela titled "Love Mandela."
Aishatu's compelling creations have graced global platforms. Her works have been spotlighted at events such as the Mozilla Festival , the Augmented Reality Amsarfest in Amsterdam, and the Afrofuturist arts event, "The 6th Dimension," held in New Haven & Hamden, Connecticut.