Zakiya Collier

Adjunct Professor

QUEENS COLLEGE

Zakiya Collier is an Adjunct Professor at Queens College. She is an Afro-Carolinian archivist and memory worker exploring the role of cooperative thought and improvisation in the preservation and sustainability of im/material cultural memory—particularly in African-diasporan, queer, and community-based organizations and cultural heritage institutions. She is passionate about uncovering ancestral memory-keeping traditions and developing archival practices that account for the material conditions of Black life.

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