Evelyne Sarah Afaawua was born in Poitiers, France. When she was one year old, her parents migrated to Italy, where she grew up and continues to live. She received her high school diploma at the Martin Luther King business and language school, then continued her studies at Bocconi University earning a Bachelor’s degree in international economics and management. She defines herself as Afroitalian, Italoghanaian or second generation, because her roots are in Africa, precisely Ghana, but she was raised at a distance, in Italy. Through a personal crisis related to accepting her double identity, she founded Nappytalia the first community and website entirely in Italian to discuss how to care for Afro natural hair, and also to discuss deeper issues like acceptance, black history, self esteem and opportunities. She attended the Tedx Milano Women 2015 as a speaker, won the Youth Entrepreneurship 2015 award and won the Africa Italy Excellence Awards as Best Blogger 2015.

Saba Anglana, a singer and songwriter, was born in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, to an Ethiopian mother (born in Somalia) and an Italian father. After a degree in art history at the University of Rome La Sapienza, she worked in the communications and publishing industry and as an actress for TV and theater. “Jidka-The Line”, her first album released worldwide by Phil Stanton’s WorldMusicNetwork, marked her solo debut in 2007, mixing traditional sounds with contemporary flourishes. She has performed on important stages like the Nat Geo Music festival for Earth Day with Cesaria Evora; the prestigious main stage of the Italia Love Wave Festival; the Auditorium Flog in Florence for the Festival Musica dei Popoli; the International Festival of Hammamet, and many more. In 2009 Saba and Fabio Barovero, composer, producer and coauthor of her works, met traditional and contemporary Ethiopian musicians in Addis Ababa where many music styles from the Horn of Africa flow together. The recordings are part of the album “Biyo - Water is Love” (2010). The title of this work is a Somali word that phonetically recalls the ancient Greek term “Bios”, “Life”, and its original meaning in Somali is “Water”. Water issues are, in fact, the main focus of this album and AMREF, the International African Organisation, chose Saba as representative for media campaigns about water and health. In 2012, following a long journey as an ambassador for this humanitarian organization, Saba published “Life Changanyisha” (“Life mixes us”). In 2014, the artist brought to the stage of one of the most important theaters in Italy (Teatro Stabile in Turin) the monologue “Mogadishow” as both writer and actress. In October 2015, after a documentary about her roots broadcasted on national Italian TV, she released her new album “Ye katama Hod” (“The belly of the city”) with the label Felmay.

Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal, an Associate Arts Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, is known internationally for his on-line performative and interactive works provoking dialogue about international politics and internal dynamics. For his 2007 installation, ‘Domestic Tension’, Bilal spent a month in a Chicago gallery with a paintball gun that people could shoot at him over the Internet. The Chicago Tribune called it “One of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time” and named him 2008 Artist of the Year. Bilal’s work is constantly informed by the experience of fleeing his homeland and existing simultaneously in

two worlds – his home in the “comfort zone” of the U.S. and his consciousness of the “conflict zone” in Iraq. Using his own body as a medium, Bilal continued to challenge our comfort zone with projects like ‘3rdi’ and ‘Counting’. Bilal’s most recent body of work, ‘Canto III,’ premiered in a solo booth at the New York Armory Show in 2015 and went on to be shown in the 2015 Venice Biennale. In 2008 City Lights published “Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun,” about Bilal’s life and the Domestic Tension project. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico and a Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar; among others.

Sheila Pree Bright, is a fine-art photographer nationally known for her photographic series ‘Young Americans’, ‘Plastic Bodies’, and ‘Suburbia’. She received national attention shortly after earning her Masters in Fine Arts degree in photography from Georgia State University, and is described in the art world as a cultural anthropologist portraying large-scale works that combine a wide-range of contemporary culture. In recent years Bright has documented responses to police shootings in Atlanta, Ferguson, Baltimore and Washington, DC. She observed young social activists taking a stand against the same struggles their parents and grandparents endured during the era of Jim Crow. In 2013 while photographing under-recognized living leaders of the Civil Rights movement, she made a connection between today’s times and the climate of the 1960’s that inspired her ‘#1960Now’ project. Bright’s current and most ambitious project to date, ‘#1960Now’, examines race, gender and generational divides to raise awareness of millennial perspectives on civil and human rights. #1960Now is a photographic portrait series of emerging young leaders affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement. Bright incorporates an Instagram campaign into #1960Now, within which she asks people in the streets what they will do to bring about change. Bright’s work is included in the book and exhibition Posing Beauty in African American Culture (Deborah Willis, W. W. Norton, 2009). Bright’s photographs appeared in the 2014 feature-length documentary “Through the Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People” (Director: Thomas Allen Harris). Venues that featured her work include the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, Washington, DC; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; FotoFest, Houston; and the Leica Gallery in New York. She is the recipient of several awards including the Santa Fe Prize (2006), and her work is included in numerous private and public collections.

Elliott Brown Jr. is a photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His work uses public, private, and biographical space to explicate the intersection of Blackness and queer identity.

Peggy Cooper Davis joined the NYU Law faculty in September 1983 after having served for three years as a judge of the Family Court of the State of New York and having engaged in the practice and administration of law during the preceding 10 years. She has published two books and more than 50 articles and book chapters, most notably in the premier journals of Harvard, Yale, NYU, and Michigan law schools. Her analyses of cross-racial interactions within the legal system have been widely cited and used in legal training. Her analyses of judicial reliance on the social and psychological sciences have been pivotal in thinking about child placement decision-making in both public law and matrimonial contexts. Her 1997 book Neglected Stories: The Constitution and Family Values and her book-in-progress Enacting Freedom illuminate the importance of anti-slavery and civil rights traditions as guides to the scope and meaning of Fourteenth Amendment liberty interests. Her recent book Enacting Pleasure is a collection of essays exploring the implications of Carol Gilligan’s relational psychology. Davis’s scholarship has also influenced the critique and evolution of legal pedagogy. She now directs the Experiential Learning Lab, through which she develops learning strategies for addressing interpretive, interactive, ethical, and social dimensions of legal practice. Davis has served as chair of the board of the Russell Sage Foundation and as a director of numerous not-for-profit, for-profit, and government entities.

Arlene Dávila is Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at New York University. She is the author of Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People (California, 2001) and Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico (1997) and coeditor of Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York (2001).

Yemane I. Demissie is an award-winning independent filmmaker whose work includes two narrative feature films, ”Tumult” and “Dead Weight”, and a feature documentary, “Twilight Revelations: Episodes in the Life and Times of Emperor Haile Selassie.” Currently, Yemane is producing “The Quantum Leapers: Ethiopia 1916-1975,” a documentary series about the Emperor Haile Selassie era. Yemane has received numerous awards for his work, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berlin Prize, Walter Mosley Award for Best Documentary, American Film Institute’s Filmmaker’s Grant, Paulin Vieyra Merit Award for Outstanding Work in the Cinema, and Fonds Sud Writing Grant. He has also been awarded residencies at Bellagio, MacDowell, Yaddo, Bogliasco, and the Dora Maar House.

Dipti Desai is an Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Art + Education Programs. Prior to coming to NYU, she taught art education at SUNY-New Paltz. Her teaching career involves two years in New Zealand, where she taught courses in Education at Victoria University in Wellington and extensive experience teaching students from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds at the elementary and middle school level in the United States, India, and New Zealand. As a scholar and artist-educator she is committed to addressing the formative role of visual representation and its politics in order to effect social change. She has published widely

in the area of critical multiculturalism/critical race theory in art education, contemporary art as a pedagogical site, art and social justice. She is the co-editor of Social Justice and the Arts (2014) published by Taylor and Francis and her co-authored book History as Art, Art as History: Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education (2010) received an Honorable mention for Curriculum Practice Category by Division B of American Education and Research Association (AERA). She received the 2012 Ziegfield Service Award in Art Education and Specialist Fulbright Award in 2014.

Alessandra Di Maio is Associate Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Palermo, Italy. She divides her time between Italy and the U.S., where she taught at several universities after earning her Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research includes postcolonial, black, diasporic, migratory, gender studies and transnational cultural identities. She is currently working on a project on African Italian literature and the Black Mediterranean. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, a UCLA Mellon postdoctoral fellowship, and a MacArthur Research and Writing Grant. Among her publications are Tutuola at the University, The Italian Voice of a Yoruba Ancestor (2000); An African Renaissance (2006); Wor(l)ds in Progress: A Study of Contemporary Migrant Writings (2008); and Dedica a Wole Soyinka (2012). She has translated into Italian works by Nuruddin Farah, Chris Abani, Caryl Phillips, and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka.

Michael Sean Funk is a proud alumnus of the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, where he received his Masters of Arts from the Department of Administration, Leadership, and Technology. Prior to his current role as a faculty member, he served as an administrator at NYU in the capacity of Associate Director for the Academic Achievement Program (AAP) and Sophomore Advising at the New York University College of Arts and Science. In 2012, he received his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Social Justice Education program. His dissertation, “Making Something of It”, explores The Untold Stories of Promising Black Males at a Predominately White Institution of Higher Education. Prior to his return to NYU he served as an associate adjunct professor at Smith College Graduate School of Social Work, as the Senior Bertha Reynolds Fellow. In that role he guided and prepared aspiring clinicians in their efforts to address issues of race and racism in the field of social work. Some of Dr. Funk’s noteworthy accomplishments and proudest moments include being selected as the NASPA Region II representative for the inaugural Emerging Faculty Leadership Academy in 2016; co-authoring the “Racism and White Privilege” chapter of Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice 3rd edition (2016); receiving a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and collaborating with reputable diversity and inclusion consultants Romney Associates (Amherst, MA) and Ed Change (edchange.org) for various college and university institutional climate assessments.

Jason King is Associate Professor and the founding faculty member of The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, an innovative leadership training program for aspiring music entrepreneurs at Tisch School of the Arts. The founding full-time faculty member of the Institute, he worked alongside legendary music impresario Clive Davis to help build and develop the program and served as the program’s interim chair in 2002, associate chair from 2003-2006, and Artistic Director from 2006- 2012. He teaches classes on record producing, music entrepreneurship, branding, rock music, hip-hop, r&b, soul, jazz, Asian American and African American culture. His research interests include: music, cinema, popular culture, identity, globalization, and 20th and 21st century geopolitics. He was affiliated faculty at NYU Abu Dhabi from 2010-2015. Outside of his role at the university, King is the host and curator of a 24/7 streaming radio channel on NPR dedicated to soul and R&B music called NPRandB, and a contributing member of the NPR Music Team. A cultural critic and journalist, musician (performer, vocal arranger, producer, musical supervisor), manager, strategist and consultant to artists and labels, and live event producer, King has written many essays on pop music in books, anthologies and journals, and contributed to magazines and newspapers like Vibe, Buzzfeed, Pitchfork, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, and The Root. He appears as a talking head and cultural critic in many music documentaries, including two Spike Lee documentaries on Michael Jackson. King is also the founder/driving force behind innovative New York based dance music superband Company Freak featuring original members of classic groups like Chic and D-Train. His books include: The Michael Jackson Treasures: Celebrating the King of Pop in Photos and Memorabilia (Fall River Press, 2009), now translated into seven languages, and Blue Magic: Spirit and Energy in Popular Music (Duke University Press, forthcoming).

Cécile Kyenge is originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo. She arrived in Italy in 1983 and graduated in medicine and surgery from the Catholic University of Rome. She earned a specialization in ophthalmology at the University of Modena and worked at several outpatient clinics in the provinces of Modena and Reggio Emilia, while also involved in activities promoting mutual awareness, integration and cooperation between Italy and Africa. Kyenge advocated for and coordinated the training of health workers, in particular, related to the health of immigrant populations. She was also involved in associations and political campaigns to promote full citizenship for immigrants.In 2004 she was elected councilor of District 3 in Modena and also regional head of immigration policies for the Democratic Party. On February 25, 2013 she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and later appointed Minister for Integration. On May 25, 2014 she was elected as a member of the European Parliament by the citizens of Emilia Romagna, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Trentino. She has been a member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) and the Commission for Culture and Education (CULT). She is the rapporteur for the European Parliament’s report on the situation in the Mediterranean and the need for a holistic approach to migration. She was appointed head of the EU election mission to Burkina Faso to ensure transparent and democratic elections in the country. She has participated in the monitoring of elections in Haiti and Nigeria. She is co-President of the European Parliament “Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup” (ARDI). Kyenge is Vice-President of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly ACP-EU and member of the delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament, promoting cooperation between Europe and the ‘Global South’.

Ryan Lee Wong is a writer and exhibition organizer based in New York. He is the Managing Director of Kundiman and a Visiting Scholar at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University. He has served as a visiting critic at RISD, and worked as the Program Director of the Asian American Writer’s Workshop, Assistant Curator at Museum of Chinese in America, and an exhibitions administrator at the Metropolitan Museum. He organized the exhibitions ‘Serve the People: The Asian American Movement’ in New York at Interference Archive and June 4, 1989 at Museum of Chinese in America. Complex magazine named him a ”Young curator you should know about."

Charlton McIlwain’s current research focuses on digital media and racial justice activism. He is the co-author of the recently published Spencer Foundation research report, “Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice.” Among his five published books is the co-authored book Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns, which, in 2012 won the prestigious Ralph Bunche Award, given by the American Political Science Association for the best book addressing ethnic pluralism. He is currently working on his next book titled, Digital Movement: Black Politics, Organizing & Activism on the Web. McIlwain frequently provides expert commentary on issues of race and media for international, national and local news media.

Mathias Möschel is a professor at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Möschel’s research, teaching and publications fall broadly in the field of comparative (constitutional) law, international human rights law and non-discrimination law, mainly from a critical race theory and gender perspective. Prior to coming to CEU, Mathias held research and teaching positions at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense, New York University and at the Institut de Droit Compare of University of Paris II (Pantheon-Assas). He has also worked at the European Commission and as an attorney in a California (Silicon Valley) law firm. Besides his academic qualifications, Möschel is also admitted to the New York Bar.

Pamela Newkirk is an award-winning journalist whose articles have been published in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, and The Guardian. Her latest book Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga won a 2016 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Non-Fiction and was included on a number of 2015 Best Books lists, including NPR’s the Boston Globe’s and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is also the author of Within the Veil: Black Journalists, White Media (NYU Press, 2000), which won the National Press Club Award for Media Criticism. Prior to joining the New York University journalism faculty where she is director of undergraduate studies, she worked at four successive news organizations, including New York Newsday where she was part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team. She holds an undergraduate journalism degree from New York University and Master’s and Doctorate degrees from Columbia University.

Award-winning film maker, Misan Sagay, won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture for Fox Searchlight’s critical box office hit, ‘Belle’. Also nominated for a Humanitas Prize, Sagay’s screenplay was inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of a British admiral who was raised by her aristocratic aunt and uncle. Sagay’s producing and screenwriting credits include “Secret Laughter of Women”, starring Colin Firth and Nia Long; and the award-winning, critically acclaimed ABC television movie, “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, starring Halle Berry and executive produced by Oprah Winfrey. She is currently writing “Battersea Rise” an eight part drama series for the BBC and “Boma Boys” a period war drama. She is also adapting Nobel prize winning playwright Wole Soyinka’s “Death and the King’s Horseman” for the screen. Misan is married and has two sons. She lives in London.

Igiaba Scego is an Italian novelist and journalist. She was born in Rome in 1974 to Somali parents who had emigrated to Italy following Siad Barre’s 1969 coup d’état. Scego’s father had been a well-known politician in Somalia and had held posts such as ambassador and foreign minister. Scego started her literary career in 2003 with a bilingual children’s book called La nomade che amava Alfred Hitchcock - Ari raacato jecleeyd Alfred Hitchcock [The Nomad who Loved Alfred Hitchcock], which is inspired by the story of her mother’s migration to Italy. In 2004, Scego published her first novel, Rhoda, which was awarded the Eks&Tra literary prize dedicated to migrant writers and their descendants. In 2005, Scego edited the anthology Italiani per vocazione [Italians by Vocation] with stories by Jorge Canifa Alves, Sabbatino Annecchiarico, Kossi Komla-Ebri, Ingy Mumbiayi Kakese, Ubax Cristina Ali Farah, Younis Wakkas, Jadelin Mabiala Gangbo and Barbara Serdakowski among others. Scego became well known after the publication of two short stories, ‘Salsicce’[‘Sausages’] (2003 Eks&Tra prize) and ‘Dismatria’, published in Pecore nere [Black Sheep], an anthology edited by Flavia Capitani and Emanuele Coen (2005) that focuses on the experiences of ‘second-generation migrants’ in Italy. Since 2005, she has edited a series of radio programmes and authored columns in some of Italy’s prominent newspapers and magazines (Repubblica, l’Unità, Internazionale), as well as online magazines specialising in migration (Carta, Corriere immigrazione, Migra,Nigrizia, El-ghibli: Rivista di letteratura della migrazione). In 2007, along with Ingy Mubiayi, she edited a collection of interviews, Quando nasci è una roulette: Giovani figli di migranti si raccontano [When You’re Born It’s a Crapshoot: Young Children of Migrants Tell their Stories], a collection of stories by seven young Italians of African origin. After graduating in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the First University of Rome (La Sapienza), Igiaba Scego completed her Ph.D. in pedagogy in 2008 at the Third University of Rome, with a thesis on the writing of Erminia dell’Oro, Cristina Ali Farah and Gabriella Ghermandi. Scego’s Oltre Babilonia [Beyond Babylon] was published in 2008. In 2010, Scego published a memoir, called La mia casa è dove sono [My Home is Where I Am], which was awarded the Mondello prize and adapted into a school text book in 2012. Igiaba Scego also appeared in the Italian film ‘La pecora nera’ by Ascanio Celestini (2010). In 2013, she started a petition to destroy a monument in honour of the Italian war criminal Rodolfo Graziani, which was built near Rome, in Affile. The main themes of Igiaba Scego’s work are the double identity of Italians of African origins, the denunciation of Italy’s colonial past and its sexist and racist legacy in the present.

Debora Spini teaches ‘Social Foundations’ at New York University Florence, political theory at Syracuse University in Florence and is adjunct professor in Social Philosophy at the Cesare Alfieri School of Political Science at the University of Florence. Her most recent publications are La Società civile post nazionale (Meltemi, Roma, 2006); with Andrea Giuntini and Piero Meucci she edited the book Le parole del mondo globale (ETS, Pisa, 2008); and with M. Fontanella she edited Il sogno e la politica. Il futuro dell’America nella comunicazione politica dei democrats (Florence University Press, 2008). She has published various essays and chapters in collective books, the most recent include “European Civil Society, Identity and Legitimacy” in F. Cerutti, S. Lucarelli, eds., European Union: Identity and Legitimacy (London, Routledge, 2008); “Of Leviathan and Other Animals, Notes on European Identity”, in L. Leonardi, ed., Sociology of Europe (Florence University Press, 2008); “Fra Valori e Interessi: la società civile in un mondo post nazionale”, in Iride, anno 2008, n. 1; “Politica, Religiòn y Espacio Publico” in Claves de Razòn Practica, n. 185, Settembre 2008.

Mr. Ian Elly Ssali Kiggundu was born in Rome from a Ugandan family. He studies law at Roma Tre University where he is also currently furthering his music education. He studies piano with M. Stefano Nerozzi and attends the year-long masterclass course with pianist M. Irene Veneziano in Novara, Italy. He joined Rete G2 Seconde Generazioni in 2007 and has been an active member ever since promoting the goals of the organisation in all corners of Italy.

Cihan Tekeli holds degrees in philosophy and Islamic studies from the University of Leiden. After finishing a fellowship at the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs in Washington DC in 2009 he started working in his current position as an educator in the fields of Holocaust, anti-discrimination, diversity and identity education at the international department of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Mr Tekeli is the mentor supervisor for former inmates at Brotherhood Rehabilitation, which he co- founded in 2013. He has been a Humanity in Action senior fellow since 2008 and is one of the founders of Mo&Moos, a network of Jewish and Muslim key figures in Amsterdam.

Justin Randolph Thompson is a sculptor and new media artist born in Peekskill, NY in ’79. Living between Italy and the US since 2001, he has exhibited internationally and participated in numerous residencies in the US and in Europe. His work explores the historic implications of triumph, victory and ascension by re-contextualizing references from Roman antiquity and mending these with aspects of African-American culture both past and present. Exploring cultural displacement and imposed hierarchies his work encompasses sculptural installation, performance, video and sound. Engaging a broad range of collaborators from diverse walks of life Thompson creates projects that engage the community as a temporary monument pushing the borders of sound and labor as a gesture of resistance. Reflecting upon a socially constructed communal legacy, he examines expectations and shortcomings through the absence of concrete linear cultural foundations. Thompson’s accolades include a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, a Grant from the Fundacion Botin, A Franklin Furnace Fund Award with his work exhibited and performed in spaces ranging from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Villa Romana and the Reina Sofia to the streets of NYC, Florence and Baltimore.

Imma Vitelli is an International Correspondent of Vanity Fair Italy. She joined Vanity Fair covering the 33-day Israeli war against Lebanon in the summer of 2006; ever since she has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, and many other countries. She covered the Arab Spring in Tunisia and in Egypt and was one of the first foreign reporters to travel to Benghazi to tell the story of the beginning of the Libyan revolution. She was born in Matera, Italy, in 1970, and has a Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University, New York. After spending one year in Cairo and eight years in Beirut, she is currently based in Rome.

Deborah Willis, Ph.D, is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Social & Cultural, Africana Studies, where she teaches courses on photography and imaging, iconicity, and cultural histories visualizing the black body, women, and gender. Her research examines photography’s multifaceted histories, visual culture, the photographic history of Slavery and Emancipation, contemporary women photographers and beauty. She received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and was a Richard D. Cohen Fellow in African and African American Art, Hutchins Center, Harvard University and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. Professor Willis received the NAACP Image Award in 2014 for her co-authored book (with Barbara Krauthamer) Envisioning Emancipation. Other notable projects include The Black Female Body A Photographic History, Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers – 1840 to the Present, Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present, Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs, a NAACP Image Award Literature Winner, and Black Venus 2010: They Called Her ‘Hottentot’.