Halle-mackenzie ashby, FORMER assistant editor

Halle-Mackenzie Ashby is a PhD student in History at the Johns Hopkins University. She holds a Masters of Arts in History from the University of Toronto, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in the Honours History program from McGill University. Ashby is a historian of Caribbean slavery and emancipation, and her research concerns questions about gender, reproduction, and sexuality.

Her current project—“Conscripts of the State: Urban Women in Post-Emancipation Bridgetown Barbados 1864 – 1890”—traces a history of the state’s interest and interference in Black women’s sexual and reproductive lives by outlining how the concept of “matrilineal inheritance” was reformed within the legal framework of post-emancipation Barbados. In addition, Ashby, is a digital curator for an upcoming Marronage Database.

Stephany Bravo, FORMER assistant editor

Stephany Bravo is a doctoral student at Michigan State University pursuing a dual degree in English and Chicano/Latino Studies. Their research centers on cultural production in the city of Compton, California. Specifically on how murals, poetry, and archival photographs provide narratives that contextualize the lived experiences of Black and Latinx communities beyond narratives of erasure. Additionally, Stephany is an inaugural MUSE Scholar, University Enrichment Fellow and one of the assistant editors for Electric Marronage. As an assistant editor, they are in charge of José Arturo Ballester’s artist visit which consists of workshops along with an exhibition at the MSU Museum.

Sarah bruno, FORMER assistant editor

Sarah Bruno is a Puerto Rican Chicago Southside Native, a PhD candidate in the Cultural Anthropology program at University Wisconsin-Madison, and a recipient of First Wave Hip-Hop and Urban Arts full-tuition scholarship. She is currently a Mellon ACLS dissertation fellow completing her dissertation, Black Latinx Refusal in Motion: Bomba Puertorriqueña and Decolonizing Diasporic Archives. Her work is published in The LatiNEXT, Acentos Review, and Anthropology News. As a poet she has performed throughout the country and competed in Slam Poetry at the collegiate level (CUPSI),  and is Louder Than A Bomb and Louder Than A Bomb University champion. Her research and art lie at the intersections of performance, diaspora, and colonialism—she is invested in Puerto Rico, Blackness, femininity, and affect. She aims to continue to write with care about never-ending process of surviving, living, and healing in Puerto Rico and it's diaspora.

Kelsey moore, FORMER assistant editor

Kelsey Moore is a PhD student in History at the Johns Hopkins University. She holds a dual Bachelor of Arts in Africana Studies and Public Policy from New York University, where she graduated summa cum laude and was the 2019 College of Arts and Science Valedictorian. Her current research focuses on unraveling the spiritual, epistemic, and ecological violence that black South Carolinians faced in the 1930s. She is the curator for thefolk, a digital project dedicated to black southern life both past and present.