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Emtithal " Emi" Mahmoud (; born 1992 or 1993 in Darfur, Sudan) is a Sudanese-American poet and Activism, who won the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam championship. In 2018, she became UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, and in this capacity, has traveled to in Kenya, Greece and Jordan, drawing wider attention to the situation of refugees.
Her sister is poet and activist Afaq "Foo Foo" Mahmoud.
Mahmoud attended Julia R. Masterman High School in Philadelphia and won a Leonore Annenberg's scholarship, an award that covers all costs for four years at any college in the United States. She then attended Yale University, where she studied anthropology and Molecular Biology and graduated in 2016.
Mahmoud's 2015 award-winning poem was called Mama. This was a tribute to Mahmoud's mother, who was unable to be in the audience that day, as she was in Sudan for the funeral of Mahmoud's grandmother, who had died on the first day of the competition. Mahmoud also dedicated a poem to Alan Kurdi called Boy in the Sand. - In 2018, she published a book of poems called Sisters' Entrance.
In 2017, Mahmoud took part in the How to Do Good speaker tour, performing poetry and discussing her advocacy work in New York, Oslo, Stockholm, The Hague, Brussels, Paris, London, and York in 2018. Since 2014, Mahmoud has also been advocating for the rights of sickle cell disease patients in Nepal.
In 2016, she was invited to recite one of her poems at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Also in 2016, she launched a campaign at the 'Laureates and Leaders Summit' in New Delhi. The same year, she gave a talk at the TEDMED conference, and was also opening speaker at a TEDxTalk in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya in 2018.
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