Raél Jero Salley is a creative artist, author, professor, & speaker. You may know of their varied roles, which include: Producer and Lead Curator of the 'Making Art History Now' Symposium (Yale University & the Venice Biennale), Founding Director of ‘The Space for Creative Black Imagination’, Chair of the Art History, Theory, and Criticism Department at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and Faculty at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. In other moments, Raél (rah-EL) teaches martial arts, leads yoga classes, feeds a dog named Biko, waters plants, and is Mazie’s grandson.