Ashleigh Greene Wade is a PhD candidate in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Situated within the fields of Black girlhood studies, media studies, and digital humanities, Ashleigh’s primary research seeks to understand technology practices among Black girls. She is particularly interested in how Black girls use cell-phone generated photography and film to contribute to cultural discourses on race, gender, and sexuality and how these visual expressions intersect with Black girls’ creation of and movement through space.
