Presenting “Philosophy as Activism”
at the Cooperative Chess Cultural Center (4C)
80 Parsons Ave
7-9pm Alternate Wednesdays, March-April 2025
Free and open to the public. Free will offering to benefit the 4C.
March 5: “What is Reality” (Plato, Plotinus, Huxley, The Matrix)
March 19: “Practical Religion” (The Gospels, The Sufis, Kierkegaard, MLK)
April 2: “Structure” (Ecclesiastes, The Tao, Chaos Theory, African Fractals)
April 16: “Identity” (Sartre, Fanon, Hofstadter, Mauss, Marcus Aurelius)
April 30: “Community Values” (Ubuntu, Sankofa, Confucius, Zhuangzi, Mirandola)
All program contents subject to change without notice.
Philosopher, writer, musician, programmer
- Author of How the Fisherman Tricked the Genie, named a Notable Book by the National Council of Teachers of English and nominated for the Georgia Book Award
- Author of Hero For Christ, a socially progressive Christian devotional, winner of a Indie Book Award
- Development Consultant at Nationwide Insurance
- Founder and Director of the Columbus Invitational Arts Competition
- Composer and Multi-Instrumentalist
- Founder and Director of the All People Music Mondays
- Married to artist April Sunami
- Child of public artist John Sunami, grandson of photographer Soichi Sunami
- Grandson of Tuskegee Airman Major Henry A. Norman, descendant of Black Revolutionary War Hero Basil Norman
- Of Black and Japanese heritage
- Graduate of Columbus Alternative High School (CAHS, 1993), Swarthmore College (1997) and the Ohio State University (2000), with degrees in Philosophy and Educational Administration
- Member of the Society for Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
- Member of the Fireside Fellowship
- Blogs at the Pop Culture Philosopher