by Kamila Shakur

Kamila Shakur is an interdisciplinary artist, spiritual practitioner, archivist, & researcher. She is the head archivist for the Hush House Black Community Museum & Institute for Human Rights, where she also serves on the board. She facilitates lineage healing by supporting her community in ancestral relationship-building, a practice that uniquely informs her current memory work as an archivist. They utilize Familial Energy Work, Creative Spirit Work, and Black Queer Femme Mysticism, three frameworks that she created to focus her research and deepen the various facets of her work. Utilizing these frameworks, she prioritizes contextualizing Black history & creating avenues for sovereignty through storytelling.