Jha D Amazi

As a MASS Design Group principal, Jha D Amazi, NOMA, leads MASS’s Public Memory and Memorials Lab, engaging communities to design projects such as the Franklin Park Action Plan (Boston), the Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument Project (Tallahatchie County, Miss., and Chicago), the Gun Violence Memorial Project (Chicago and Washington D.C.), and the Sugar Land 95 Cemetery Revitalization Project (Sugar Land, Texas). Amazi is a spoken word artist, event producer, and self-proclaimed SpaceMaker for the LGBTQ+ communities of color. In 2023, she was appointed to the Governor’s Advisory Council on Black Empowerment by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey.