Nzinga was born in the 1950s, and is unsure of her birthplace. She earned a MFA in Writing and Consciousness from the
New College of California and a Ph.D. in Transformative Education & Change from the
California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. In 1999, she founded the
Lower Bottom Playaz theater troupe. They were first hosted at the
Sister Thea Bowman Memorial Theater, and starting in 2023 at
BAM House, an art center for African-American arts. in chronological order. In 2021, she became Oakland's first Poet Laureate for a term of two years. == Selected works ==