Leigh Raiford is Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches, researches, curates and writes about Black visuality and world-making. At UC Berkeley, Raiford also co-directs with Tianna S. Paschel, the Black Studies Collaboratory, an ongoing initiative to amplify the world-building work of Black Studies supported by funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Spencer Foundation and the San Francisco Foundation. Raiford is the author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle (University of North Carolina Press, 2011), When Home is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World (Duke University Press, 2026); co-author with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas and Laura Wexler of Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography (Thames and Hudson, 2024); co-editor with Heike Raphael-Hernandez of Migrating the Black Body: Visual Culture and the African Diaspora (University of Washington Press, 2017); and co-editor with Renee Romano of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory (University of Georgia Press, 2006). Raiford has written essays about the work of a number of contemporary lens-based artists including Dawoud Bey, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Wendel White, David Alekhuogie, and Josh Begley. Most recently, Raiford is Series Editor with Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Deborah Willis of Vision and Justice, an imprint of Aperture Books.