BCRW Welcomes Miriam Neptune as Senior Associate Director
BCRW is delighted to welcome Miriam Neptune as our new Senior Associate Director! Over the last ten years, we have had the privilege of collaborating with Miriam on many of our core programs and projects, from the Transnational Feminisms project in its early days to the current Poverty and Housing Project. Miriam brings with her to BCRW deep and singular commitments to research, activism, and art–the three elements of social justice feminism we cultivate and celebrate at the Center.
Prior to joining BCRW, Miriam was the Co-Interim Dean and Director of Teaching, Learning, and Digital Scholarship at the Barnard College Library. She previously held positions as a librarian in digital scholarship and instructional media at Barnard College and Smith College, and has worked as a media educator for elementary, middle, and high school students. Miriam is also a filmmaker and an archival researcher on Haitian, Dominican, and U.S. Black feminist histories.
For over twenty years and across her areas of work, Miriam has brought her attention to engaging community and changing conversations about critical social issues. Undesign the Redline @Barnard is among her recent visionary collaborations with Barnard faculty Mary Rocco (Urban Studies) and Kaiama Glover (French and Francophone Studies, Africana Studies) and BCRW Senior Program Assistant Pamela Phillips, along with students and community members representing local organizations including the Schomburg Library, the Laundromat Project, the Apollo, and the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative. Two years of collective study and creation have culminated in a public exhibition that is currently on view at the Milstein Center, Barnard College, during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Miriam has also worked with Kaiama Glover and BCRW’s former Associate Director Tami Navarro to produce the podcast series WRITING HOME: American Voices from the Caribbean. This collaboration builds on BCRW’s programming series Critical Caribbean Feminisms and Miriam’s work with Haitian-Dominican activists, which most recently includes an English-language digital edition of Nos Cambío La Vida [Our Lives Transformed], an anthology of first-hand writings by Dominicans of Haitian descent describing lives lived under conditions of statelessness.
In her position as Senior Associate Director, Miriam will also take the helm as Editor of The Scholar and Feminist Online. S&F Online is a free, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary academic journal with new issues published three times per year. The S&F Online team looks forward to collaborating with Miriam on future issues on abolition and Black feminist histories, and to deepening our engagement with artists and other cultural workers.
We are thrilled to continue our work with Miriam, to learn from her vast knowledge, and to write the next chapter of BCRW together.
Please join us in extending the warmest welcome to Miriam!