Vasilis-Chukwunonso Onwuaduegbo is a queer Greek-Nigerian-American artist, entrepreneur, and human rights advocate. 

In his capacity as an advocate, Vasilis has worked at several social cause institutions in cities such as New York, Paris, and Indianapolis on issues relating to immigration, the LGBTQ community, African development, human trafficking, amongst other pressing issues that disempower and dehumanize individuals in favor of capital or bigoted ideologies.

Vasilis has served as a co-curator of the ‘Where is South’ exhibition at The Africa Center in NYC, where his art piece Full Reflections was showcased. He is also a former Gotham Writers Workshop student, and he has received several accolades for his essays and short stories.

Shedding the Archive, For New Beginnings is his self-publishing debut, and he currently lives and creates in Washington, D.C.