Justine McConnell is Reader in Comparative Literature and Classical Reception at King’s College London. Her research focuses on African diaspora literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, on ancient Greek literature, and on the...
Sanele Ntshingana is a lecturer in the African Languages section of the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Cape Town, with over five years of experience in the higher education sector. His PhD research explores how isiXhosa-speaking...
Darol Olu Kae is an award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His work has gained international acclaim, showcased at renowned venues like the Locarno, Sundance, and SXSW Film Festivals, as well as BAM, Film at Lincoln Center, MoMA, and The Geffen...
Raven Jackson is an award-winning filmmaker, poet, and photographer from Tennessee. Her work often explores landscapes of indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature. Recently nominated for a Film...
Dr. Kendra Taira Field is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public History at Tufts University. Field is the author of Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War (Yale, 2018), which traced her own...
Rodney Carmichael is a storyteller, journalist and cultural critic, covering hip-hop at NPR Music since 2017. He often works at the intersection of race and inequality, telling stories across mediums that combine reporting and criticism to spotlight the...
Jordan R. Brown is an ethnomusicology doctoral candidate at Harvard University with a secondary field in African and African American Studies. Her current research interests include Black underground politics, Black feminist theory and queer theory, Black...