
keondra is author of the poetry collection Things You Left Behind and is a contributor to the anthology Black Librarians in America: Reflections, Resistance, Reawakening. keondra is founder of the Black Women Writers Project, an independent digital initiative highlighting the legacies and archival collections of Black women and gender-expansive creatives. Keondra bills freemyn is a writer and archivist whose work centers digital archives, social movements, and Black cultural production. Along with Jennifer Guiliano, Risam is founding ⇢
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Her most recent co-edited volume, The Digital Black Atlantic, with Kelly Baker Josephs, was published in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series at U. Minnesota Press in 2021. She is the author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy. Roopika Risam is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and of Comparative Literature and part of the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster at Dartmouth College. The AADHum Scholars Program is a digital and experimental production fellowship that provides humanities-invested post-docs, faculty, artists, programmers, GLAM professionals, and independent scholars with support toward the implementation of a #BlackDH project. Click here to learn more about Scott's digital exhibition and exploration project, "The Museum of Black Girl's Play." Prior to pivoting to academia, Renee was an administrator, teacher, and curriculum designer for various DC Public Schools, Charter Schools and educational organizations. With research interests in post-Civil Rights girlhood, African American Culture, and play, Renee investigates Black Girl Play and Joy as mechanisms for promoting racial health among Black girls.

Renee Nishawn Scott is a PhD student in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Maryland. Click here to learn more about Christiana's virtual literary gatherings project, "How Fingers Make Cherries Sing."

She is currently enrolled in the MLIS program at University of Maryland where she is aiming to combine her love of literature, archives, and museum studies into a unique career path. She graduated from Spelman College in 2018 and received her MFA from Southern University Illinois in 2021. The Graduate AADHum Scholars Program (tGASP) is specifically designed to support local students whose digital work is or might become an element of their graduate coursework, MA thesis, or dissertation. Applications are open to University System of Maryland and regional HBCU graduate students.Ĭhristiana McClain is a black queer writer from Houston, Texas. Click here to learn more about Martin's interactive project on sound and care in Black D.C. She is currently working on her first book, entitled Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic Life in Washington, DC. Currently an Assistant Professor of Music and the Cluster for Digital Humanities and Social Engagement at Dartmouth College, Martin's work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the Society for American Music, and the American Musicological Society.

Utilizing a combination of ethnographic fieldwork and digital humanities methodologies, Allie considers how African-American people in the city experience gentrification as a sonic, racialized process. Īllie Martin explores the relationships between race, sound, and gentrification in Washington, DC. Click here to learn more about Sensei's project on Black play as a form of healing and collective witness. The first chapter of her speculative fiction novel, Blue Zone, was published digitally through Arch Street Press, winning the 'Meet Me 19th St.' literary award. She was a 2016- 2017 cohort with ‘at lands edge’ pedagogical program to combine art and activism, and in 2020 was named an Indie Memphis Black Filmmaker Resident for her screenplay, ‘Kitt.’ She was also named a 2020-2021 “Time, Space, Money” HRLA Resident, exhibiting a video installation on police brutality protests at Actual Size Gallery in Los Angeles.
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Specializing in race, culture, and sociopolitical theory, she has released three seasons of the web series ‘The Americans’ to explore and archive Black American cultural narratives. Her writing has been printed in such publications as NAACP’s The Crisis Magazine, NYLON magazine, Kweli Journal, and Riot Material, and referenced in Jacobin, Vulture, Complex, Newsweek, AJ+, People, Netflix, Vice, Walker Art and more. Seren Sensei is a filmmaker, writer, and artist.
