Allen Kwabena Frimpong

Allen Kwabena Frimpong a.k.a nii.a.k [knee-ah-keh] is a conceptual artist and urban planner engaged in cooperative design for community wealth building. He is a founder of ZEAL, a worker-owned creative arts and social impact studio for Black artists, featured in the LA Times, New York Times, ABC Nightline, Cultured Magazine, Deem Journal, and Hyperallergic. As a conceptual artist, he designs and produces multimedia anthologies through public installations in predominantly urban spaces, soundscapes, and exhibitions. He has released a multimedia anthology, “The Remedy is Solidarity: A Global Multimedia Anthology on Reparations,” highlighting an entire volume dedicated to California, the first state to enact a reparations process in the US. He previously anchored the work of the Old Money, New System community of practice, supporting movement resource mobilization initiatives to redistribute wealth in philanthropy nationally.

Through the work of his first anthology, he became a 2024-2026 Open Society Foundations Equality Fellow. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow at PolicyLink and a co-founder of Liberation Ventures, a field-building organization that fosters a culture of repair towards winning reparations in the US. Allen has supported the capacity building of many philanthropic and social movement efforts and is currently the Board Chair of Resist, one of the oldest social movement public foundations in the US.