
The Black Rest Project
The Black Rest Advisory Council:
H. Samy Alim, the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Faculty Director of the UCLA Hip Hop Initiative at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.
Esther Armah, CEO, The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice (The AIEJ), Accra, Ghana
Nicholas Breyfogle, Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University; Director, The Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching; Affiliated Faculty, Sustainability Institute; Editor, Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective; Editor, Picturing Black History, Columbus OH
Dejha Carrington, Co-founder & Executive Director, Commissioner, Miami, FL
Clive Chang, President, YoungArts, Miami, FL
Jake Goldbas, Program Director, The Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM), Queens, NY
Gayatri Gopinath, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Director of the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality at New York University, New York, NY
LC Johnson, Founder, Zora’s House, Columbus, OH
Jason King, Dean, USC Thornton School of Music, Los Angeles, CA
Michelle Lanier, Director, North Carolina Historical Sites; Director, The Harriet Jacobs Project, Raleigh, North Carolina
Khary Lazarre-White, Executive Director & Co-Founder, The Brotherhood Sister Sol, New York, NY
Treva B. Lindsey, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University, founder of the Black Feminist Institute and the co-founder of Black Feminist Night School at Zora’s House, Columbus, OH
Jennifer L. Morgan, Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis & History, NYU Arts & Science, New York NY
Luisa Múnera, Senior Manager, Artistic Programs and Curator, YoungArts, Miami, FL
Sheri Neale, Co-Founder, Maroon Arts Group, Columbus, OH
Kristina Newman-Scott, Executive Director of The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space of WNYC and WQXR (New York Public Radio) New York, NY
Marshall Short, Co-Founder, Maroon Arts Group, Columbus, OH
James Allister Sprang, Multidisciplinary Artist, Philadelphia, PA
Rosie Gordon Wallace, Founder of The Diaspora Vibe Culture Arts Incubator (DVCAI), Miami, FL