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Akiemi Glenn, PHD

  • ABOUT
  • PRACTICE
  • PRESS & APPEARANCES

Dr. Akiemi Glenn is a linguist, artist, and cultural practitioner working the connections between scholarship, community organizing, and creative expression in social practice that centers language, place, and belonging in collective acts of memory, imagination, and justice.

Information design and page layout
Information design and page layout
Curatorial consulting for HoMA
Curatorial consulting for HoMA
Founder & Executive Director, The Pōpolo Project
Founder & Executive Director, The Pōpolo Project
Cultural consulting on Māori translation
Cultural consulting on Māori translation
2024 Martin Luther King, Jr. Peacemaker Award
2024 Martin Luther King, Jr. Peacemaker Award
Continuing ancestral practices of textile + pigment art
Continuing ancestral practices of textile + pigment art
Black community advocacy in Hawaiʻi
Black community advocacy in Hawaiʻi
Collage + Assemblage
Collage + Assemblage
In conversation with renowned filmmaker Stanley Nelson
In conversation with renowned filmmaker Stanley Nelson
Building archives with elder scholar Dr. Katherine Waddell Takara in Kaʻaʻawa, Hawaiʻi
Building archives with elder scholar Dr. Katherine Waddell Takara in Kaʻaʻawa, Hawaiʻi
Collage + Assemblage
Collage + Assemblage
Reviving Carolina Algonquian
Reviving Carolina Algonquian

Across projects in language revitalization, curation, and cultural futurism, Akiemi engages communities in collective acts of memory, imagination, and justice.