Omi Osun Joni L. Jones (dramaturg) is an artist/scholar whose work focuses on performance ethnography, theatrical jazz, Yoruba-based aesthetics, Black Feminisms, and activist theatre. She is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), and she has served as the Director of the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at UT. Among her dramaturgical credits are Shay Youngblood’s directed by Daniel Alexander Jones, and Sharon Bridgforth’s directed by Laurie Carlos. Jones is a participant in the Black Performance Theory Consortium, and is a member of the Urban Futures Think Tank at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Her most recent book, Àṣẹ, , was released in May, 2015.