John’s training is still in session, regardless of what is happening in Rushville, Nebraska.
Odamea Akomah
Odamea Akomah
Odamea Abena is a Cultural Strategist, Change Leader, and contributor to The Knockturnal. As founder of the leadership media platform odamea.com, she covers prestige film, theater, and screen through an institutional power lens — translating what happens on screen and on stage into frameworks for high-performing professionals navigating elite spaces. Her press credentials span the New York African Film Festival, the Old Vic London, the Tribeca Storytelling Summit, and Cherry Lane Theatre. She is also a Principal at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she architects enterprise-wide frameworks bridging frontline human needs and complex technical systems. She writes at the intersection of culture, leadership, and the rooms that shape us.
Grief is not the same for everyone, and director Zaenob Aremu-Bashir‘s short film ‘Ramyun and Tangerines’ beautifully explores this reality.
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Authentic Thai can be a car ride away, and the Soul of Thai Cuisine—presented by Thai Select—proved it.
We assume love has one beginning, one turmoil, one ending — until Shifters walks into Cherry Lane Theatre and rewrites it.
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