Black Women Writers Project.
Black Women Writers Project.
Celebrating the enduring legacies and cultural contributions of Black women, non-binary, and gender non-conforming creatives

 

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Our Team

 
 

The Black Women Writers Project is a volunteer-run initiative that functions in partnership with cultural and educational organizations to highlight the work of Black women and gender expansive writers across all genres. We rely heavily on our network of volunteers who support our work through Wikipedia edit-a-thons, digital archival trainings, transcription events, fact-checking, research, and content development. BWWP also offers pro-bono consultations to early- and mid-career Black creatives in building and protecting their archives, with an emphasis on digitization of physical records and preservation and organization of born-digital records. For more information, contact us.

 
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keondra bills freemyn

Founder

keondra bills freemyn  is a DMV-based archivist, writer, Wikipedian, and former diplomat originally from South Central, Los Angeles. A poet, essayist, and fiction writer, she is the author of Things You Left Behind and the forthcoming collection, for lovers. She is founder of the digital archive initiative, The Black Women Writers Project, highlighting the contributions of Black women and gender expansive writers to the literary canon, and publisher at 67th Street Storytellers. keondra is an alumna of Fordham University (B.S.) and Columbia University (M.P.A.) and is a Society of American Archivists Digital Archives Specialist. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from Harvard University and a Master of Library and Information Science from University of Maryland College Park in Archives and Digital Curation. Her research interests include digital archiving and memory work, personal archiving, post-custodial models, open data, and Black history and cultural production. She is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and currently resides in Prince George’s County, Maryland with her wife and child.

keondra would like to acknowledge Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Brendalyn King, Morgan Parker, Staceyann Chin, and alicia sanchez gill freemyn for their support in the conceptual stages of BWWP.