Vanessa K. Valdés

Vanessa K. Valdés

Vanessa K. Valdés Author, Historian  Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés is a cultural critic and historian whose work focuses on the literatures, visual arts, performances, and histories of Black peoples throughout the Western hemisphere. An engaging speaker, she served as a...
Shay-Akil McLean

Shay-Akil McLean

Shay-Akil McLean Writer, Biologist  @Hood_Biologist Dr. McLean is a writer, educator, independent research scientist, public scholar and thought  leader studying the relationships between human biology, racism, and health inequities. Dr.  McLean is a trained...
Quartez Harris

Quartez Harris

Quartez Harris Author, Educator  @QuartezHarris1 Quartez Harris is a poet and teaching artist and was a second-grade teacher for six years. Harris is a Baldwin House fellow and named The Ohio Poetry Association’s Poet of the Year for his book We Made It to...
Mia Bay

Mia Bay

Mia Bay Professor of American History, Author  Mia Bay is the Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History at University of Pennsylvania. She is a scholar of American and African American intellectual, cultural and social history whose recent interests...
Ayana Omilade Flewellen

Ayana Omilade Flewellen

Ayana Omilade Flewellen Archaeologist, and Storyteller Ayana Omilade Flewellen (they/she) is a Black Feminist, an archaeologist, a artist scholar and a storyteller. As a scholar of anthropology and African and African Diaspora Studies, Flewellen’s intellectual...