Africans Rising Together 2063

Dr. Reynaldo Anderson currently serves as an Associate Professor of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Reynaldo is currently the Executive Director and co-founder of the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM), an international network of artists, intellectuals, creatives, and activists.  He is the co-editor of the following anthologies and journals, Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness and The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design (Lexington Books, 2015, 2019), Cosmic Underground: A Grimoire of Black Speculative Discontent (Cedar Grove Publishing, 2018), Black Lives, Black Politics, Black Futures, a special issue of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (2018), and When is Wakanda: Afrofuturism and Dark Speculative Futurity (The Journal of Futures Studies, 2019). Reynaldo served as a member of the curatorial council for Carnegie Hall’s Afrofuturism festival in 2022.  He was recognized by the National Council of Black Studies with the 2025 Fanny Lou Hamer/ Kwame Nkrumah award for Academic Leadership and Service in the African world and is the author of the forthcoming book Afrofuturism and World Order with the Ohio State University Press.

Email: afrofuturismscholar@gmail.com

Website: https://www.bsam-art.com/.