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Ethiopian-American interdisciplinary artist with an emphasis in performance and installation art that implicate the audience. Other titles she bears that also inform her art practice are mother, educator, and birthworker. Recurring themes present in Makonnen's work are identity, migration, colorism, womanhood, ritual, and kinship. In the last few years her work has centered around creative responses to the forced migratory patterns inflicted on the African Diaspora.