Nejat Kedir earned her BA and MA from University of Washington Bothell. She majored in American Studies as an undergrad and completed her MA on Cultural Studies.
Research interests: Black geography, Black feminism and critical race theory
Chantel Eboni McCrea (she/they/he) is a scholar of deeply invested in Black diaspora studies and in particular, their intersections with Gender and Sexuality Studies. This investment has led Chantel to be an abolitionist educator, activist, and organizer for over 10 years now from 6th grade until the present. Her initial interest in this was only further nurtured by her time in the Black Studies, Gender and Sexuality, and Performance Studies departments at Northwestern University where she completed various research projects ranging from archival research on...
Charlie Pollard-Durodola holds a JD specializing in Critical Race Studies and was an Articles Editor of the UCLA Law Review. Their prior scholarship, Deadly Desires: The Juridical Birth of Queer Humanism, examined the project of U.S. queer legal subjectivation as a case study in the sacrificial position of blackness under the law. Their current research analyzes philosophical theories of political action; especially critiquing the value of the imagination in enabling the psycho-politics of black futurity. General fields of interest include 19th-20th century and...
Endria Isa Richardson is a gay black and Malaysian scholar, writer, and lawyer. Endria’s work explores speculative literature as a site for the development and popular dissemination of critical philosophies of race, black phenomenology, decolonial thought, and theories of radical black utopianism. In conversation with thinkers such as Sylvia Wynter, Frantz Fanon, Eduard Glissant, and José Esteban Muñoz, Endria’s work explores the underlying epistemologies that facilitate and hinder the realization of black utopian ideas in the real spaces of...
“Houston-native Traveon Dinell Rogers is a musician, performing artist, photographer and budding filmmaker who draws inspiration from thought-provoking, authentic representations of culture through multimedia content. Armed with a passionate conviction that stages and screens of all sizes are today’s most powerful educational tools, Traveon demonstrates that scholarly endeavors can be explored beyond libraries, lecture halls, and books.
Their interests and artistic ventures are creative as they are intellectual and methodical. While living Mexico, he involved...
Irene is a writer, director, and curator exploring how artists fashion a poetics of Black sociality. A recent graduate of Columbia University’s MA program in African American and African Diaspora Studies (2023) and Princeton University’s undergraduate program in African American Studies (2020), Irene is a doctoral student at U.C. Berkeley, with a focus in African American Studies, Film Studies, and Theater and Performance. Disciplinary engagements range from contemporary Afro-surrealism, Visual Poetics, Media Studies, Political...
Zana Sanders is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of Black studies, film, and media studies. She earned a B.A. in Film and Media and M.A. in African American Studies from Georgia State University. Currently, Zana is a Berkeley Fellow and doctoral student in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research explores the visual representation of (anti)Blackness across the diaspora in film, digital media, news, art and popular culture.
Broadly, Zana’s research interests include performances of...
Sophia Sanzo-Davis (she/her) is a cultural worker from the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated with honors from UC Berkeley in 2021 with a BA in African American Studies and a minor in Public Policy. Since graduating, Sophia has worked in Community Engagement at the Brooklyn Museum where she managed institutional programs including the launch of the inaugural Museum on Wheels project—a mobile extension of the museum that brings art-based programming across the borough. Her research interests include: Black archival histories, institutional cultural stewardship, segregation and...
