Zakiya Collier
Zakiya Collier is an Afro-Carolinian archivist, memory worker, and educator. Her research explores archival practices that account for the material conditions of Black and Indigenous life and the role of cooperative thought in the sustainability of cultural memory. Their recent work includes leading The Black Memory Workers group, co-producing the forthcoming film Somebody’s Gone, being a member of the New Museum’s New INC Incubator 2023-24 (Year 10) Cooperative Studies Track, serving as the first Digital Archivist at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Co-Editing a special double issue of The Black Scholar on Black Archival Practice.