Dr. LeRonn P. Brooks is Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Collections at the Getty Research Institute. He is also a curator for The Racial Imaginary Institute founded by poet and MacArthur Fellow, Claudia Rankine in 2016. His interviews, essays, and poetry have appeared in publications for Bomb Magazine, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Spelman Museum of Art, The International Review of African American Art as well as The Aperture Foundation, among others. He has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation and Callaloo Journal.