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Akiemi Glenn, PHD

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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
The Pōpolo Project
The Pōpolo Project
Cultural consulting for translation
Cultural consulting for 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
The Black Futures Ball
The Black Futures Ball
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
Reconnecting with Carolina Algonquian
Reconnecting with Carolina Algonquian
Collage
Collage

Across projects in language reclamation, curation, and Black and Indigenous futures, Akiemi engages communities in collective acts of memory, imagination, and justice.