Meet the Lab

  • Kevin Ah-Sen

    Solidarity Fellow, Remains // An Archive

  • KV Bailey

    Solidarity Fellow, The Manchineel Project

  • Stephany Bravo

    Solidarity Fellow, Archivo Tres Diez

  • Arianna Browne

    Solidarity Fellow, Archipelagos of Marronage

  • Sarah Bruno

    Solidarity Fellow, Taller Entre Aguas

  • Zoe Butler

    Solidarity Fellow, The Manchineel Project

  • Isis Yael Amador Campusano

    Solidarity Fellow, Afro-Latinx Lab

  • María M. Burgos Carradero

    Solidarity Fellow, The Kitsimba Project

  • Chenise Calhoun

    Solidarity Fellow, Black Louisiana Incubator

  • Kiana González Cedeño

    Solidarity Fellow, After the Storm

  • Ayleen Paola Correa Rodriguez

    Solidarity Fellow, Afro-Latinx Lab

  • Ariana Costales Del Toro

    Solidarity Fellow, The Survival of a People

  • Pedro Noel Doreste

    Postdoctoral Fellow & Lab Co-Lead;
    The Manchineel Project

  • Anais Couvertier Garay

    Solidarity Fellow, After the Storm

  • Essah Diaz

    Solidarity Fellow, Taller Entre Aguas

  • Imaida M. Durán-Mariñez

    Solidarity Fellow, The Survival of a People

  • Yafrainy Familia

    Solidarity Fellow, Survival of a People

  • Nicole Hernandez

    Solidarity Fellow, The Survival of a People

  • Nyla Jones

    Solidarity Fellow, Black Testimony Project

  • MaDeja Leverett

    Solidarity Fellow, The Black Testimony Project

  • Awa Diagne Lo

    Solidarity Fellow, Translation Lab

  • Felicita "Felli" Maynard

    Solidarity Fellow, Black Louisiana History Incubators

  • Robin McDowell

    Lab Member, Black Louisiana Incubator

  • Alana Cordero Montesinos

    Solidarity Fellow, Survival of a People

  • Jaden Morales

    Solidarity Fellow, Survival of a People

  • Leana Mason

    Solidarity Fellow, Black Testimony Project

  • Olivia M. Ramírez

    Solidarity Fellow, The Survival of a People

  • Daniel Morales-Armstrong

    Solidarity Fellow, Taller Entre Aguas

  • Jessica Newby

    Solidarity Fellow, Remains // An Archive

  • Yuleysy Ortiz

    Solidarity Fellow, The Survival of a People

  • Sanaa Palmer

    Solidarity Fellow, The Black Testimony Project

  • Mary Pena

    Solidarity Fellow, Afro-Latinx Lab Manager

  • Lauren Prince

    Solidarity Fellow, After the Storm

  • Afua Quarshie

    Lab Lead, Community Knowledge Lab; Solidarity Fellow, Translation Lab

  • Melanie N. Rodríguez Vázquez

    Lab Lead, Open Boat Lab; Solidarity Fellow, Afro-Latinx Lab

  • Abigail Vázquez Rosario

    Solidarity Fellow, Taller Entre Aguas

  • Jennifer Mojica Santana

    Solidarity Fellow, Afro-Latinx Lab

  • Jeremy M. Santiago Rojas

    Solidarity Fellow, Afro-Latinx Lab

  • Fatima Seck

    Solidarity Fellow, Translation Lab

  • Samantha Stephens

    Solidarity Fellow, Remains // An Archive

  • Aurelis Troncoso

    Solidarity Fellow, Afro-Latinx Lab

  • Xavier Walker

    Solidarity Fellow, Black Testimony Project

  • Nyla Williams

    Solidarity Fellow, Black Louisiana History Incubators

  • Teona Williams

    Solidarity Fellow, After the Storm

  • Cece White

    Lab Member, Black Testimony Project

Meet the Maintainers

  • Alex Gil

    Digital Strategist, LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure

  • Alana Casanova-Burgess

    Podast Specialist, co-creator, host and producer of WNYC Studios' La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience

  • Emily McGinn

    Digital Humanities Specialist, Johns Hopkins University

  • Jes C. Neal

    Archivist, DSL

  • Jon Baynes

    Research Software Engineer, LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure

  • Laura Minero

    Therapist, Alchemy Psychology Colectivo, Inc.

Meet the Directors

  • Dr. Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez

    DSL (PI); Director of the Open Boat Lab

  • Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson

    DSL (Co-PI); Director of the Community Knowledge Lab

Meet the Project Manager

  • Tatiana Esh

    Project Manager, DSL

Consultants & Collaborators

  • Dr. Estrella Torrez

    Re-Memory Lab Collaborator

  • Dr. Tamara Butler

    Executive Director of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

  • Gloriann Sacha Antonetty Lebrón

    Founder of Revista étnica

  • Dalina A. Perdomo Álvarez

    Assistant Curator MSU Broad Art Museum;
    Lab Co-Lead, The Manchineel Project

  • Windy Cosme

    Cultural Manager, Museologist, Historian, Humanities Professor at University of Puerto Rico

  • Alana Casanova-Burgess

    Co-Creator, Host and Producer of WNYC Studios’ La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience

Past Members

  • Rosa Emilia Cruz Cordero

    Solidarity Fellow, Taller Entre Aguas

  • Gabriel Rivera Cotto

    Lab Member, Taller Entre Aguas

  • Halle-Mackenzie Ashby

    Solidarity Fellow, Archipelagos of Marronage

  • Maya Hogarth

    Solidarity Fellow, Black Louisiana Incubator

  • Kathryn Nicole Jones

    Lab Members, Black Louisiana History Incubators

  • Kelsey Moore

    Solidarity Fellow, Southern Digital Culture Lab

  • Gregory Smaldone

    Lab Member, Archipelagos of Marronage

  • Joshua Strayhorn

    Lab Member, Southern Digital Culture Lab