Resonate Online Workshops: Unpacking Complex Histories

Gabby Bulgarelli is an audio producer based in Brooklyn who creates immersive audio experiences about Black culture. She’s currently a freelance Senior Producer at Issa Rae’s Raedio. Her work seeks to put Black history in conversation with contemporary music and culture in an informative and engaging way. As the Senior Producer of Louder Than A Riot from NPR Music, she reported on everything from the way the Black femme body is policed in hip hop to the trial of Tory Lanez in the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion. Before Louder Gabby worked on several seasons of the acclaimed podcast Mogul, where she reported on the the birth of chopped and screwed music in Houston and the 2 Live Crew’s fight to set first amendment precedent in Miami.

For more than eight years, Chioke I'Anson, PhD taught in the Department of African American Studies, endeavoring to help students understand Africana thinking while also growing the department. Previously, at Spelman College, he taught African Diaspora in the World. Before that, he taught courses in philosophy that focused on major black thinkers like William R Jones and Frederick Douglass. I'Anson understands Africana Studies as a transdisciplinary pathway to good thinking, just as potent as philosophy for helping develop critical thinking skills, but focused on a history that should be widely known by everyone.