Christin Washington is a PhD Candidate in the Department of American Studies and a Flagship Fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the Assistant Director of the African American Digital & Experimental Humanities (AADHum) research and design lab. Christin’s scholarship stretches media and modes of digital storytelling (i.e. photography, photogrammetry, laser scanning, virtual reality) to articulate cultural memory across black geographies. Her current research project, 9Night and Good Mourning, uses speculative mapping to look at Caribbean women’s lives in the context o...

Alena Gray is a senior undergraduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park double majoring in Studio Art (concentrated in Graphic Design), and Cinema and Media Studies, while pursuing a minor in Digital Storytelling and Poetics. She currently works at AADHum as an intern assisting with design and documentation, particularly through the creation of instructional zines for the various technologies offered throughout AADHum and MITH. She also assists in the creation of other print materials like event cards, bookmarks, and other merchandising. Her interests primarily lie in the crea...

Elizabeth “Lisa” Abena Osei focuses on Postcolonial Studies and African Literature, and specifically on Black Speculative Fiction at the University of Maryland, College Park. Lisa Abena Osei holds an MA in Comparative English Studies, Literature and American Culture from Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, and an MPhil in English Literature from the University of Ghana. She has published peer-reviewed articles on Black speculative fiction, specifically Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism, in The Journal of African Literature Association (JALA), Critical Studies in Media and Communication jour...