A Long Walk Home
In 2003, Salamishah Tillet and her sister, Scheherazade Tillet founded A Long Walk Home, an arts organization that empowers young people to end violence against all girls and women. A Long Walk Home works with artists, students, activists, therapists, and community organizations, and cultural institutions to advocate for healing, address racial and gender inequality, and activate social change.
Pulling Together
Curated by Salamishah Tillet and Paul Farber for Monument Lab, Beyond Granite’s “Pulling Together” is the first outdoor exhibition on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The exhibition features new works by the leading contemporary artists — Derrick Adams, Tiffany Chung, Ashon Crawley, vanessa german, Paul Ramirez Jonas, and Wendy Red Star — that each respond to a central curatorial question: "What stories remain untold on the National Mall?”
August 18 - September 18, 2023
Because of Anita
Co-hosted and co-produced by Salamishah, and Cindi Leive, of The Meteor, “Because of Anita,” is an exclusive four-part podcast series, that examines the 30-year legacy of Professor Anita Hill’s testimony before the all-white, all-male Senate Judiciary Committee—and both what’s changed and what has not about our understandings of race, gender, and sexual harassment in the years since then.
It features interviews with notables like Tarana Burke, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Kerry Washington, Drew Dixon, Carol Moseley Braun, Jane Mayer, Barbara Ransby, Irin Carmon, and Fatima Goss Graves—all of whom have been shaped by the hearings — and feature the first-ever public conversation between Hill and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
Express Newark
In June 2021, Salamishah became the Director of Express Newark, a center for socially engaged art and design at Rutgers University-Newark. Inspired by the City of Newark’s ongoing legacy as an epicenter of art and activism, Express Newark is a third space that bridges the campus and community and supports contemporary artists who are dedicated to social justice in Newark and beyond.
New Arts Justice
Founded in 2018, Salamishah is the faculy director of New Arts Justice, an intitiative at Rutgers University-Newark that support feminist approaches to socially engaged art in Newark and beyond.
Black Girl Freedom Fund
The #1Billion4BlackGirls campaign invites us to imagine what 2030 can look like if we invest $1 billion in Black girls and young women over the next 10 years.