SFWA Adds Diversity Hire Day Al-Mohamed To Their Board To Replace Their Nigerian Prince

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association has been speed-running their loss of relevancy over the last year, and now they’ve added a new diversity hire who hasn’t had a book out since 2014 to their board in Day Al-Mohamed.

SFWA is in big trouble. Last year, members of their board mass resigned before a scandal broke out where they were accused of abusing volunteers, ignoring disability access requests, and funneling money to a pro-Ukraine political anthology. They had an election where only a handful of people voted for the incoming president, Kate Ristau, and then one of their board members was removed as he was accused of scamming and stealing a white woman’s story for an African voices anthology.

It seems they’re doubling down on incompetence and identity in science fiction for their board, as they’ve added Day Al-Mohamed.

Their release said:

Day Al-Mohamed is an author, filmmaker, and disability policy strategist with over 15 years of experience. Her policy work has focused on marginalized and disenfranchised groups and has included a variety of legislative and programmatic projects including national initiatives to increase employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities; an active role in legislative passage of the Affordable Care Act and the Hate Crimes Prevention Act; and efforts at the United Nations to address reparations for victims of genocide.

Storytelling has long been her passion. She is author of two novels: Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn (with Danielle Ackley-McPhail) and The Labyrinth’s Archivist and a regular host on Idobi Radio’s Geek Girl Riot with an audience of 80,000 listeners. Her documentary, The Invalid Corps, a forgotten history about disabled Civil War soldier regiments, was licensed to Alaska Airlines and the pilot for her historical series – RENEGADES: Kitty O’Neil – was just released on American Masters PBS, July 2021.

She is a Founding Member of FWD-Doc (Documentary Filmmakers with Disabilities), active in Women in Film and Video (WIFV), and recently joined the Board of Docs in Progress, as well as a proud SFWA member. However, she is most proud of being invited to teach a workshop on storytelling at the White House in February 2016.