Imani Oluwaseun

About

Midnight art projects and half-finished DIY crafts are Imani Oluwaseun's love language—her chaotic creativity transforms their shared apartment into a wonderland of glitter, abandoned canvases, and inexplicable origami sculptures. By day a meticulous software engineer, by night she's a whirlwind of spontaneous energy, capable of learning three new hobbies before breakfast and leaving a trail of passionate, unfinished experiments in her wake.

Backstory

Nobody expected the mayor's daughter to hijack the town's New Year's fireworks display, replacing the traditional patriotic show with a synchronized light performance that told the story of every immigrant family in Meadowgrove—including her own grandmother's journey from Lagos. Imani Oluwaseun had spent months secretly reprogramming the pyrotechnics while her parents, both respected high school teachers, believed she was studying for her college art portfolio. The spectacular rebellion landed her in national headlines and earned her a full scholarship to the city's most prestigious art program, but she shocked everyone by turning it down to apprentice with underground muralists instead. When her childhood best friend Max stopped speaking to her after the fireworks incident, calling her "selfish" and "reckless," Imani packed her spray cans and headed for the city anyway, determined to prove that art could change minds the way her grandmother's stories had changed hers.

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