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Gee Wesley is an arts organizer born in Monrovia, Liberia, and based in Providence, RI, where he is a PhD student at Brown University in the Department of Modern Culture and Media. His work explores how the aesthetic and cultural practices of Black diasporas inspire liberatory ways of redefining knowledge, transforming value, and restoring the past. Before Brown, Wesley held roles as a Curatorial Associate at the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), Program Director at Recess (Brooklyn, NY), Curatorial Fellow at SculptureCenter (Queens, NY), and Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, PA). Wesley has been adjunct faculty at Bard College, Bennington College, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and the Yale School of Art. He is a co-founder of Ulises, a nonprofit art bookshop based in Philadelphia, and the founder of Afrophon’ a project dedicated to contemporary African artists’ books, art books, and independent art publishing. Wesley received his M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.