About Croney

Stephanie Croney is a Miami, FL (Carol City) native, 80s baby, writer, author, Afro Humanist and Humanities professor at Florida State University. As a writer Stephanie utilizes her life experiences along with her Afro Caribbean cultural identity and imagination to explore “Afro descendancy” as an intersection of Western identity with African anatomy.

“Afrofuturism is the thing I knew I needed but didn’t know what to call it”. -Croney

As a cultural anthropologist and Humanist, Stephanie believes that there is an inherent desire for all original people to connect with their past and futures. Stephanie’s junior year of college, was spent pursuing degrees, while searching for something more, something “identifiable” and “meaningful”. The ability to identify Afro descendant expressions as means for Afro descendant survival, is vital to a culture still aiming to name itself.

Stephanie’s background in Religion, Cultural Anthropology and Design Thinking in combination with her love of science fiction, comics, Afrocentricity and indigenous cultures, functions as multi-purpose lenses with which to analyze humanity. Stephanie has found inspiration in the blending of academic techniques along with self-awareness which resulted in the creation… “Origen”.