Can’t Change the Past Michael Brown Jr. 10 Years Gone

Alexis Rivierre is a multidisciplinary storyteller, educator, and exhibitions coordinator whose work explores Black lived experiences through diverse media, including photography, textiles, poetry, and performance. Her innovative art practice, which challenges conventional narratives with a fractured storytelling approach, has been featured at venues such as STNDRD and Museum Blue. Rivierre holds an MFA in Studio Art from Wichita State University and a BFA from Missouri State University. Rivierre is an adjunct professor at Suffolk County Community College and has served as an exhibitions coordinator for Counterpublic and the Kranzberg Arts Foundation, partnering with these organizations to support marginalized communities through transformative exhibitions and educational programs.

Nicole Sealey was born in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida. She is the author of The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, and an excerpt from which was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She is also the author of Ordinary Beast and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, and co-edited the anthology Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters and Poems, for and about One Mr. Komunyakaa. Her honors include both the Arts and the Hodder Fellowships from Princeton University and a Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library, among others. She teaches in the MFA Writers Workshop in Paris program at New York University.

Quincy Troupe is an award-winning poet, biographer, and the author of 20 books, including 12 volumes of poetry and three children’s books. His writings have been translated into over 30 languages. His most recent book of poetry is Duende Poems, 1966–Now.

Ama Birch was born during a blizzard on the Lower East Side. Some recent work has appeared in Hanging Loose Magazine, Lonesome Press, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. Listen to the Ferguson Interview Project recordings on Spotify and YouTube. She teaches undergraduates writing at Hunter College in New York City.