Dr Krystal Strong

Dr. Krystal Strong is an associate professor of Black Studies in Education at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. An anthropologist by training, her research and teaching use ethnographic, participatory, and multimodal methods to investigate youth and community activism, global Black social movements, and the role of education as a site of struggle in Africa and the African Diaspora. For more than 15 years, Dr. Strong has conducted research in Nigeria, holding affiliations with the University of Ibadan and the University of Lagos. Dr. Strong is an active community organizer whose political work centers on educational justice, political prisoners, and Pan-African solidarity. She is a core organizer with Black Lives Matter Philadelphia, co-convener of the Pan-African Activist Solidarity Collective, a global network of organizers on the frontlines of Black movements, and archive director of The MOVE Activist Archive, a community counter-archive working to preserve the revolutionary history of the Philadelphia-based MOVE Organization.