Balancing a full-time hip-hop career while pursuing her PhD in Science and Technology Studies at Cornell, Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo’s been producing beats and rapping under the moniker Sammus since 2009, a powerful voice at the intersection of music and technology, covering subjects as diverse as video games and cartoons to social justice and mental health.

2016 Patrons

Special thanks to Asana, BackerKit, Dropbox, Figma, GitHub, Instrument, Intel, Intercom, Knight Foundation, MailChimp, Next Draft, Slack, and WordPress.com for their support. XOXO would not be possible without them.

Community Patrons

We’d also like to thank Cotton Bureau, Scout Books, Seamless, and Stephouse for extending their generosity to us this year in producing XOXO.