Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson, Lab Supervisor

is an Associate Professor of History and Director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure at John Hopkins University, and the author of Wicked Flesh. She is also the Co-PI of the Mellon funded Diaspora Solidarities Lab. She is no stranger to invigorating curiosities and prompting thinkers to follow them.

Kevin Ah-Sen,
Solidarity Fellow (Lab Lead)

is a PhD student in Communication Studies at McGill University. His work explores theories and forms of racial and queer subjectivities, death, grief, and their pedagogical im/possibilities, by way of Black studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis. He is also the convenor of black symposium noir, a bilingual independent Black Studies collective in Montreal, and a member of the Sex in Theory working group.

Jessica Newby,
Solidarity Fellow (Lab Lead)

is a PhD candidate in History at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests are slavery in the 18^th and early 19^th centuries, enslaved women, family and kinship, sexuality, violence, and mourning throughout the Black Atlantic. 

Samantha Stephens,
Solidarity Fellow

is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on the intersection of enslavement and technology in the Black Atlantic. Thinking with Black feminist technologies and Caribbean digital archival methods she blends literary and artistic practices to reimagine Black Caribbean pasts and futures.

co-conspirators:
⬥Dr. Essah Cozett Diaz (Taller Entre Aguas Lab, Center For Puerto Rican Studies – Huner College)
⬥Dr. Sarah Bruno (Taller Entre Aguas Lab, Michigan State University)
⬥Dr. Kiana Gonzalez Cedeño (After the Storm Lab, Texas Christian University)
⬥Dr. Teona Williams (After the Storm Lab, Rutgers University)

artist-collaborators:
⬥Christopher López
⬥Tatiana Esh
⬥Romaine McNeil
⬥Sha-Shonna Rogers
⬥Julia Mallory

other relations:
⬥LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure
⬥After the Storm Collective