The Curators
Zharia Jeffries
Zharia (she/her/hers) is a writer and journalist dedicated to empowering the voices of all black people but especially black womxn. Hailing from the southeast regions of Columbia, SC, and Atlanta, GA she took her writing skills to Tulane University where she majored in Communications and English. Addressing her senior class as the first Black woman commencement speaker for the School of Liberal Arts, she went on to pursue her Masters’s Degree in Journalism at Syracuse University. She received the Newhouse Minority Fellowship, granting her a full-tuition scholarship and an internship with a major digital news publication, Advance Media New York. Eagerly she set off to explore her many talents in digital communications, writing feature articles for The Post-Standard. Now she is a Staff Writer at Trueline, writing feature stories for their Vanguard and Toggle publications. She has dedicated her work to documenting, empowering, and uplifting black voices because she knows that When a Queen Speaks, You Listen.
Sarah Elizabeth Jones
Sarah (she/her) was born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, and studied Political Economy and Africana Studies at Tulane University. From her time abroad at the University of Cape Town and mentorship in the Africana Studies program, she is committed to studying the Diaspora and exploring the intersections of employment & labor, Blackness, and reproductive justice. Having experience in political campaigns, domestic violence advocacy, and youth education, she grounds herself in Black Feminist traditions and remains committed to eradicating systems of oppression and In her daily life, Sarah works to interrogate her relationship with capitalism, to dismantle fatphobia, and to create safer and open conversations around sexuality with her friends. Currently, working in the non-profit sector, Sarah works with a team of Black womxn fighting to transform the future of Black maternal and child health.
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