Michelle Gordon

Michelle Gordon is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the African American Studies Department within Emory's College of Arts and Sciences. Her teaching and research centers around intersections among Black literature, culture, history, and freedom struggles. She is partnering with photographer Jim…

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Rasheeta Chandler

Rasheeta Chandler, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN is an Assistant Professor at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. In addition, Dr. Chandler has a Visiting Professorship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Center for AIDS Prevention Science.  Her research interests include…

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Dr. Burchfield

Dr. Burchfield is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University. Her research integrates social and environmental data to understand the distributional consequences of changing climate on humans and the environment. She relies heavily on geospatial programming and analysis, but also…

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Lee Osorio

Lee Osorio is an actor, playwright, and director based in Atlanta. His work has been seen on stages across the city, Off-Broadway, and on television. He is a proud union member (AEA and SAG/AFTRA) and a founding member of the Coalition for Racial Equity in…

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Elizabeth Jarrett

Elizabeth Jarrett is a multi-disciplinary spatial and experience designer specializing in immersive and interactive media. Over the past decade, she has produced and directed visual and performance art, music, and community-driven events in Atlanta through retired arts organization Deer Bear Wolf and in 2020 founded…

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Miranda Kyle

Miranda Kyle (ᏣᎸᎩ Cherokee descendant/European-American)  is the Program Manager of Arts and Culture for Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. (ABI) and curates the annual Art on the Atlanta BeltLine Public Art Exhibition. She is passionate about the preservation of Atlanta’s graffiti culture, and the intersection of Indigenous Land…

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Mark Kendall

Mark Kendall is an award-winning comedian, filmmaker, and educator. Along with his production partner, Bill Worley, he is the co-founder of CoolCoolCool Productions (coolcoolcoolpro.com), where they use comedy to encourage civic engagement. Their videos were named “Best Reason to Laugh” by Atlanta Magazine in 2021.…

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Indya Childs

Indya Childs is a dancer and choreographer that hails from Atlanta, Ga. Indya began her dance training at Price Performing Arts Center and The Atlanta Ballet. Indya holds a B.A. in Dance from  Kennesaw State University and in 2015, was named ‘25 to Watch’ by…

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Stephanie Brown

A daughter of Jamaican immigrants, Stephanie Brown grew up in South Florida at the intersection of her Jamaican and Black American identities. Broadly her work is a reflection of her internal self/ancestral exploration. The work is a historical yet critical investigation of identity construction and…

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Jim Alexander

Jim Alexander (American, b. 1935) is an award winning documentary photographer who has spent over fifty years refining what he calls the art of documentary photography. A photojournalist, teacher, activist, media consultant and entrepreneur, Alexander has amassed an impressive collection of images of Black culture and…

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