Kameelah Janan Rasheed was born in 1985 in East Palo Alto, California, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BA in public policy from Pomona College and an MA in secondary social-studies education from Stanford University. A self-described learner, Rasheed examines the appearance and legibility of text in a range of creative forms, including wall collages, large-scale public installations, publications, and lecture-performances. Poetic and political, these works explore the complications, slippages, and possibilities of language in relation to Black subjectivity while they create new ecosystems of meaning.