New Projects​

Cara Michell: Resurrecting Black Spatial Imaginaries: Participatory Mapping at the Flatbush African Burial Ground

• In partnership with Shanna Sabio of the Brooklyn community arts organization GrowHouse, Cara Michell will facilitate a participatory mapping workshop series and research process rooted in the legacy of the Flatbush African Burial Ground. As part of Cara’s ongoing project, Black Psychogeographies, these maps will document spatial stories about Black memory, history, and future visions for the site. ​

Rebekah E. Moore: Black Artists Creating a Culture of Health through Arts-in-Health Collaborations

• This project explores how involving Black artists in public health initiatives can mitigate racialized health disparities in intensely segregated cities. Research partnerships will bridge the missions of a public health commission, which tracks health outcomes data and sets health equity priorities, and office of arts and culture, which coordinates grant opportunities and sets arts equity priorities, to mobilize policy advocacy for future arts-based public health research and interventions.​

Jane Yamashiro: Okinawan Community Writing Project: Decolonizing Culture through Research Justice

• With the long-term policy goal of gaining recognition as an ethnic group on the U.S. Census and collecting demographic data about this unrecognized Indigenous population, this community-led project promotes recognition of “Okinawans” as an ethnic group in the United States through the creation of publishable materials on Okinawan culture and history