Nadia Milad Issa (they/them) is a scholar-practitioner, dance educator, and an Iyalochá—a fully initiated high priestess of Regla de Ocha-Ifá. They graduated from Harvard Divinity School with a Masters of Theological Studies and is starting their PhD. at UT Austin with a focus on spiritual reparations. A lifelong dancer and member of a Haitian Contemporary Dance Company, Nadia fuses art and activism and focuses their studies on Afrikan-derived traditions in the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, particularly Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian traditions of Regla de Ocha-Ifá, Candomblé, and Umbanda.

In this episode, Nadia and Daniel discuss:

- Spiritual reparations, what that is, and what it might look like

- The misrepresentation of and prejudice against their tradition, Regla de Ocha-Ifá, popularly known as “Santería”

- Relating to trees or bodies of water as the literal bodies of divinity

And much more!