Organizers

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Maisha M. Auma is an Educator, Gender Studies Scholar, and Activist. She was Professor for Childhood and Difference (Diversity Studies) at the University for Applied Sciences, Magdeburg- Stendal, from 2008 - 2022. She was a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin from 2014 to 2019. She held the Audre Lorde Guest Professorship for Intersectional Diversity Studies in the DiGENet, Diversity and Gender Equality Network of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) in 2021 and 2022. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies of the Technical University Berlin. Maisha has been active in the Black queer-feminist collective “Generation Adefra, Black Women in Germany” since 1993. Her research focuses on: diversity, inequality, and plurality in textbooks and didactical materials in East and West Germany, intersectional sexual education as empowerment for Black communities and communities of color, critical whiteness, intersectionality, decoloniality, and critical race theory. Together with Peggy Piesche and Katja Kinder she carried out a consultation process in cooperation with the LADS, the State Agency for Equal Treatment and Against Discrimination for the State of Berlin in 2018. The project was entitled: „Making Visible the Discrimination and Social Resilience of People of African Heritage in Berlin.“ It was a project within BLACK BERLIN, the UN-Decade for People of African Heritage 2015 - 2024.

Denise Bergold-Caldwell, Dr. (phil.) is a university assistant (post-doc) at the Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Innsbruck. She is a Gender and Black Studies Researcher and Aktivist. She received her PhD in Educational Sciences from Philipps-Universität Marburg and was the Executive Assistant at the Center for Gender Studies and Feminist Futures at Philipps-Universität Marburg until April 2022. She is interested in Black Studies, Black Feminist Theory, critical post- and decolonial theories, and educational theory(s) in these contexts. She lectures on these topics also outside the academic context and works with and in social movements. She is an aktive  member of the Initiative Black People in Germany (ISD) and the Black queer feminist cultural forum ADEFRA.

Fatima El-Tayeb is Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her research interests include Black Europe, comparative diaspora studies, queer of color critique, critical Muslim studies, decolonial theory, transnational feminisms, visual culture studies, race and technology, and critical European studies. She is the author of three books and numerous articles on the interactions of race, gender, sexuality, religion and nation. Here current research projects explore the intersecting legacies of colonialism, fascism, and socialism in Europe and the potential of (queer) people of color alliances in decolonizing the continent.

Tim is an undergraduate student at Yale University pursuing a B.A. in Political Science with certificates in Chinese and Human Rights. He manages the InBEST website and works as research assistant to Prof. El-Tayeb. 

Chernice is an undergraduate at Yale University pursuing a B. A  in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Political Science. She is involved in curating the project's web archive. Her research interests include exploring the concept and historical background of the queer African population and the role of dark money in constructing political landscapes in the Western world.