Gia Abrassart is a journalist and activist based in Belgium.[1]

Biography edit

Abrassart began her career in hospitality, before working for the International Committee of the Red Cross. She then returned to university to study journalism at the Université libre de Bruxelles.[2]

In 2012, she was a co-founder of the Warrior Poets collective.[3] In 2015, she co-wrote the Créer en postcolonie 2010-2015. Voix et dissidences belgo-congolaises book with Sarah Demart. That year, she also launched a lemon-and-ginger brand of drinks called Ginger G.[4] In 2018, she founded the Café Congo in the Studio CityGate, in Anderlecht, as a cultural space.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ "Génération décolonisation : Ces militants qui font trembler Léopold II". 28 June 2020.
  2. ^ "In Gia Abrassart We Trust, créatrice de synergies et de rencontres".
  3. ^ "Gia Abrassart | Humanities Academie".
  4. ^ "Gia Abrassart: 'L'art africain n'est pas encore traité équitablement.'".
  5. ^ "D'une radicale hospitalité". 19 August 2020.