Melaine Ferdinand-King, PhD, is a Providence-based cultural researcher, organizer, and curator. Concerned with “the lovely unexpected,” her theoretical and creative work amplifies twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, archives, community media, and Africana aesthetics. She is co-founder of the Black Biennial and the recipient of the 2025 Michael S. Harper Memorial Prize for jazz poetry.
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Melaine Ferdinand-King
