Raven Maragh-Lloyd is an Assistant Professor of Race and Digital Media in the Department of African and African American Studies and the Program of Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her PhD in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa in 2018 and holds an MA and BA in Journalism from the University of Missouri. Her research focuses on Black digital media practices and their connections to power, resistance and longstanding efforts of community building and preservation.