francine emefa tamakloe (they/she) is an anti-disciplinary artist and cultural worker, with roots stretching from Accra, through the American South, to their current homebase of Lenapehoking (fka Philadelphia).

With this diasporic lens, francine uses food, writing and curation to explore our relationship to sweetness, interrogate our structural beliefs, and incite imagination from the site of taste. Her latest essay and experimental recipe “Both/And: on tomatoes, the Supreme Court, and queering binaries” was published in September 2024 by Produce Parties.

Previously a marketing executive at Spotify, francine produced projects for communities across the global Black diaspora, directly supporting over 300 musicians, artists, dancers, photographers, filmmakers, and creative organizations.

Their work has been featured in Cannes International Festival of Creativity, Variety, Highsnobiety, Hypebae, Revolt, Teen Vogue among others. Francine is a 2023 Watering Hole Poetry Fellow and DCDG Cycle I Artist-In-Residence. They are a former board member of ZEAL, a worker-owned creative arts studio alliance creating spaces for Black artists to thrive.