Nalani Love-Harris
Assistant to the Exec. Dir, Antiracist Research & Policy Ctr
CAS | Antiracist Research and Policy Center (ARPC)
Degrees
B.S. Communications
Favorite Spot on Campus
The Bridge
Bio
Nalani Love-Harris is a community, care, and convening strategist for antiracist research events and programming. She uses her skills and experience to advance organizations’ research mission by bridging groundbreaking research initiatives and outcomes with actionable and translatable programming that showcases the research to the public and incentivizes support from diverse stakeholders.
In her recent work with the Antiracist Research & Policy Center, she organized the center’s national academic conference on abolitionist praxis, expert panels, book talks, and speaker engagements. Along with events, she produced the center’s rapid response live-streams that analyzed the ramifications of U.S. policies on race, Supreme Court decisions on Roe v. Wade and Affirmative Action, and a mini-series of live streams on pointing the U.S. farm bill towards racial justice called ‘Farm Bill Summer’. In addition to event management, she coordinates programming for student education initiatives, public engagement, and workshops for affiliates, faculty fellows, and grantees to showcase their research, manuscripts, and projects on transnational, relational, and/or intersectional research.
When she is not supporting the research events and programming of antiracist organizations, Nalani works on her social media project and personal research. Her social media project ‘GrowwithNalani’ serves as a site where she engages her journey as a Black transwoman through the lens of racial, gender, and labor commentary, as well as explores how systems and cultures contribute to pop culture issues and events through a Black trans femme lens. In her research, Nalani explores Black trans motherhood not only at the site of procreation and adoption but at the sites of found family, community building, ballroom, labor, and sex.
