Niama Safia Sandy is a New York-based curator, producer, and multidisciplinary artist. Niama’s creative practice delves into the human story- through the application and critical lenses of culture, healing, history, migration, music, race, and ritual. She is an agitator who endeavors to simultaneously call into question and make sense of the seemingly arbitrary nature of modern life and to celebrate our shared humanity in the process. Her aim is to leverage history, the visual, written, and performative arts, chiefly those of the Global Black Diaspora, to tell stories we know in ways we have not yet thought to tell them and to lift us all to a higher state of historical, ontological, and spiritual wholeness in the process. Sandy is a co-founder of The Blacksmiths, a coalition forging support for Black liberation against anti-Black racism and its manifestations in the academy and at cultural institutions on the global stage. Niama is a member of the Resistance Revival Chorus, a group of women and non-binary identifying musicians bringing song to life in the spirit of activism, collective joy, and resistance. She is also an active member of the Wide Awakes, an international network of artists and creatives radically reimagining the future through creative collaboration. Niama and her work have been featured in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, The Washington Post, Hyperallergic, OkayAfrica, and more. She has written for outlets including Artsy, Active Cultures LA, and NAD NOW. Niama is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, School of Art.