Yasmine Espert (she/they) loves learning alongside creatives and sharing their stories. They are an Assistant Professor of art history at York University, and Editor of Interviews and Profiles at Seen — a journal for Black, Brown and Indigenous voices in film, art and visual culture. Dr. Espert is currently working on their first book with Duke University Press, exploring contemporary films by women and queer artists of African and Asian descent within the broader history of Caribbean filmmaking and activism. They earned their doctorate from Columbia University. Examples of their work include an interview about performance with an abolitionist framework called “Minimalism Forces You To Imagine: Speaking with Benji Hart and Anna Martine Whitehead” (Public Books). Similarly, their commissioned essay “On Turtle Island, I learned to be as alive as possible” documents a QTBIPOC artist project for Canada’s National Arts Centre — English Theatre. Dr. Espert also authored “To risk the sovereignty of our own stories” for The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History. More examples of their creative work can be found at yasmineespert.com.