Greetings,

Asma (ahs-ma) N. is a Brooklyn native, Digital Humanist, Black feminist, and a graduate student at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She uses audio/technology to discourse her broader philosophical research interests in gender, social ontology, and digital humanities to develop original content in public scholarship. Asma cares about creatively transposing what’s meta about experience into accessible language and technology alike. Her other central topics include beauty politics, digital space and identity, and sound studies — all in relationship to Black women and individuals who are the priority in her work. 

Asma has a strong background in research and advocacy, having maintained a handful of fellowships across reproductive health, leadership, and diplomacy during and post undergrad at the University of Maryland, College Park. She’s also held appointments as a coordinator of education and training for diversity initiatives, and educational data management in the sites of D.C./Maryland and New York City.

Asma is 1/5th of the team, Mapping Cemeteries, which is a digital humanist timeline project that explores the relationship between identity and death across four distinct cemeteries in New York City. She contributes her research skills in language, methodology, and analysis, as well as project design, strategy, and audiovisual modulation.  

Most of the above says more about her professional abilities and less about who is Asma. Somewhere at the core are the matters of the head and the heart that speak to love, wellness, and Halloween (her favorite time of year).

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