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The Virgin Islands Studies Collective is the visionary result of four Virgin Islands women from the islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix. We are a multidisciplinary collective whose research interests and artistic praxes center decolonial Black feminist orientations. Members of our team are well-versed in mediums such as painting, installation, writing, ethnography, and philosophical inquiry. Learn more about the members of our collective by clicking the button below!

Known as “St. JanCo,” The St. John Heritage Collective is a community land trust, on the small island of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI). St. JanCo is on a mission to preserve the history, identity, and culture of St. John’s people, especially those whose ancestry on St. John predates the 1917 American Purchase of the USVI from Denmark, and the 1956 establishment of the Virgin Islands National Park.

Dr. Hadiya Sewer is a Research Affiliate in the African and African American Studies Program at Stanford University and a Visiting Scholar in the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University. Dr. Sewer's work uses a non-sovereign territory in the Caribbean, the United States Virgin Islands, as a case study for tracing the conceptions of freedom and the human that exist under contemporary colonialism. Sewer earned their Ph.D. in Africana Studies at Brown University. Their scholarship focuses on environmental justice and Africana decolonial, feminist, queer, and political theories.