SAMMUS (Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo) is a rap artist and producer from Ithaca, NY with Congolese and Ivorian roots. She received her PhD in science and technology studies from Cornell University in 2019. From 2019 to 2022 she received a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University, initially appointed as a Cogut Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities from 2019 to 2020 and as a Mellon Gateway Postdoctoral Research Associate from 2020 to 2022. She is currently the David S. Josephson Assistant Professor of Music in the music and multimedia composition program where she teaches courses on rap songwriting, feminist sound studies, and Black feminist sonic practices. Beyond her appointment in the music department, she is a member of the Science, Technology, and Society steering committee at Brown and serves on the advisory board for the Sound Arts & Industry program at Northwestern. In 2019 she became the Chief Rap Officer at
Glow Up Games, the first all women-of-color led game studio, and in 2020 she became a member of theKEEPERS Hip Hop Collective.