Dr. Elisha Lim, is a Provost Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice, where they are working on a book that connects social media algorithms to piety and pious conduct. Lim is also an award-winning claymation filmmaker and graphic novelist, and their community-based art practice has been extensively documented […]

Dr. Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early twentieth century. Her first book, Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press, 2020) —argues that African American newspapers fostered Black sexual expression, […]

Award-winning media artist Liz Canner has produced many documentaries and transmedia projects that investigate social and environmental in/justice issues.  She often utilizes emerging technologies to interrogate mainstream narratives, explore new language for communication and inspire user engagement. Her critically acclaimed interactive documentary Symphony of A City, explores the housing crisis from a new perspective. Orgasm Inc., a NY […]