Maya Doig-Acuña is a writer, educator, and a PhD candidate in African & African American Studies at Harvard University. Her research interests include Black diaspora, family history, and migratory narratives in the Circum-Caribbean world. Their dissertation draws on Black feminist methods to examine Afro-Caribbean commemorative practice and everyday placemaking between 20th century Panama and New York City, with a particular focus on Black women’s memory-keeping. Her essay, “The Most Caribbean of Stories,” was selected as one of Southern Cultures Journal’s Top Ten of 2021. You can find their other published work in NACLA Report, Remezcla, Guernica Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a born-and-raised Brooklynite, though currently lives in the Boston area.
