OUR  FELLOWS

Emory Arts & Social Justice fellows represent a cross-section of Atlanta’s most dynamic creative thinkers.
Artists are selected in recognition of their artistic accomplishment and commitment to advancing social justice.

2024 ARTIST FELLOWS

2024 FACULTY FELLOWS

PREVIOUS FELLOWS

2023

Artist Fellow: Adán Bean, writer, emcee and spoken word artist

Faculty Fellow: Dr. Emorja Roberson, Assistant Professor of Music and African American Studies at Oxford College

Course Name: Black Church, Black Music

Artist Fellow: W.J. Lofton, poet

Faculty Fellow: Dr. Emily Wall, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science

Course Name: Information Visualization

2022

Artist Fellow: Leo Briggs, choreographer

Faculty Fellow: Devon Goss, assistant professor of Sociology

Course Name: Introduction to Sociology

Artist Fellow: Sierra King, artist and archivist 

Faculty Fellow: Paul Bhasin, Director of Orchestral Studies, Music

Course Name: Emory University Symphony Orchestra

Artist Fellow: Amina S. McIntyre, playwright

Faculty Fellow: Eladio Abreu, senior lecturer of Biology

Course Name: Bioethics and Vulnerable Populations: A Historical Perspective

2021

Artist Fellow: Jim Alexander, documentary photographer

Faculty Fellow: Michelle Gordon, Department of African American Studies

Course Name: Survey of African American Literature to 1900

Artist Fellow: Mark Kendall, comedian

Faculty Fellow: Carlton Mackey, Emory Center for Ethics and Department of Film and Media

Edward Queen, Emory Center for Ethics

Course Name: Film, Media and the Art of Social Change

2020

Artist Fellow: Olivia Dawson, actor and playwright

Faculty Fellow: Allison Burdette, professor of practice, Business Law, Goizueta Business School

Course Name: Social Justice: Zoning, Contracts and Environmental Racism

Artist Fellow: Shanequa Gay, visual artist

Faculty Fellow: Alix Olson, assistant professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), Oxford College

Course Name: The Feminist Art(s) of Activism

Artist Fellow: Antonio David Lyons, actor, poet, musician, playwright and artivist

Faculty Fellow: Lori Teague, Associate Professor of Dance

Course Name: Dance Pedagogy

Artist Fellow: Bird Harris, painter and social practice artist

Faculty Fellow: Dr. Loren Michael Mortimer, Provost Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American History

Course Name: Introduction to Native American History

Artist Fellow: John E. Doyle Jr, storyteller and actor

Faculty Fellow: Meredith Schweig, assistant professor of Ethnomusicology

Course Name: Discipline of Ethnomusicology/Ethnography

Artist Fellow: Juel D. Lane, choreographer

Faculty Fellow: Julio Medina, assistant professor of Dance

Course Name: Hip Hop Dance and Identity

Artist Fellow: David Perdue, stand up comedian

Faculty Fellow: Micaela Martinez, assistant professor of Biology

Course Name: Human Flourishing: Imagine A Just City

Artist Fellow: Stephanie Brown, photographer and interdisciplinary artist

Faculty Fellow: Rasheeta Chandler, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Course Name: Endogenous & Exogenous Determinants of Human Health

Artist Fellow: Miranda Kyle, curator

Faculty Fellow: Shaquita Starks, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Course Name: Disruptive and conduct disorder diagnosis bias and the school to prison pipeline: Creative and compassionate interventions for BIPOC children

Artist Fellow: Fahamu Pecou, visual artist

Faculty Fellow: Arri Eisen, professor of pedagogy, Biology and the Institute for the Liberal Arts, Emory College

Course Name: Epigenetics and the Human Condition

Artist Fellow: Okorie “OkCello” Johnson, composer and cellist

Faculty Fellow: Elizabeth Walker, research assistant professor of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences (BSHES), Rollins School of Public Health

Course Name: Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders

Artist Fellow: Meredith Gordon, clown and actor

Faculty Fellow: Dr. Khaalisha Ajala, Assistant Professor at Emory University School of Medicine

Course Name: Healing Justice is Social Justice: Narrative Medicine

Artist Fellow: Nia Jackson, visual artist

Faculty Fellow: Dr. Shawana Moore, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing

Course Name: NRSG 726D DNP Project Development I

Artist Fellow: Mark Kendall, comedian

Faculty Fellow: Edward Queen, Director of the Ethics and Servant Leadership Program, Emory Center for Ethics

Course Name: Film, Media, and the Art of Social Change

Artist Fellow: T. Lang, choreographer, dancer and  associate professor of Dance at Spelman College

Faculty Fellow: Joel Silverman, adjunct professor of Film and Media

Course Name: Photography II

Artist Fellow: Indya Childs, dancer and choreographer

Faculty Fellow: Ellen Ott Marshall, Candler School of Theology

Course Name: Voices of Nonviolence

Artist Fellow: Lee Osorio, actor and playwright

Faculty Fellow: Sean Meighoo, Department of Comparative Literature

Course Name: Anticolonial Thought and Art in the Caribbean

Artist Fellow: Garrett Turner, actor

Faculty Fellow: Hank Klibanoff, professor of practice, Creative Writing Program, Emory College

Course Name: Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases

Artist Fellow: Kelly Taylor Mitchell, artist, Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College

Faculty Fellow: Dr. Amy Zeidan, Assistant Professor at Emory School of Medicine

Course Name: Immigration as Social and Structural Determinant of Health

Artist Fellow: Jessica Hill, improviser and applied theater practitioner

Kacie Willis, podcaster

Faculty Fellow: Wes Longhofer, Executive Academic Director of the Business & Society Institute, Goizueta Business School

Course Name: Business and Society

Artist Fellow: Alex Mari, durational artist

Faculty Fellow: Ellie Schainker, Arthur Blank Family Foundation Associate Professor of Modern European Jewish History

Course Name: History of Antisemitism

Artist Fellow: Elizabeth Jarrett, experiential designer

Faculty Fellow: Emily Burchfield, Department of Environmental Sciences

Course Name: Environmental Data Science

Artist Fellow: Sumayyah Ali, Founder/CEO, Power Haus Creative

Faculty Fellow: Carlton Mackey, director, Ethics & the Arts Program, Emory Center for Ethics

Faculty Fellow: Edward Queen, director, Ethics and Servant Leadership Program, Emory Center for Ethics

Course Name: Film, Media and the Art of Social Change