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Who We Are

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Directors

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Rachel Nelson

Director and Chief Curator; Co-Director, Visualizing Abolition; Co-Director, Aesthetics of Resilience

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Gina Dent

Faculty Research Director; Co-Director, Visualizing Abolition; Professor, Humanities

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Ari Friedlaender

Co-Director, An Aesthetics of Resilience, Professor, Ocean Science and Institute of Marine Sciences

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Staff

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Postdoctoral Fellows

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Graduate Student Fellows

Chloe Lew

Graduate Student Researcher, An Aesthetics of Resilience

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Artist Fellows