Cultural worker, educator, and co-producer of #MuseumsAreNotNeutral, La Tanya S. Autry is an avid reader, tea drinker, and lover of the arts. She has created exhibitions and programming in institutional and non-institutional spaces as well as collaborative freedom projects including the Social Justice & Museums Resource List, Art of Black Dissent, the Black Liberation Center, and the Arts & Social Justice Workout.

Lately, she has been exploring writing as curatorial formation – “Beholding and Curating with Care,” Hyperallergic, 2022; “A Trouble-Making Conjuring/Love Spell for ‘We’ Who Care,” Creative Time Think Tank: Invitations Toward Re-Worlding, 2022; and “Critical Black Memory as Curatorial Praxis and Collective Care,” in Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches, 2023.

La Tanya, who is completing her PhD in art history at University of Delaware, is examining the interplay of race, representation, memory, and public space in her dissertation The Crossroads of Commemoration: Lynching Landscapes in America.