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Akeema-Zane is an artist and researcher based in New York City and is Afro-Caribbean descent. She centers the literary, cinematic and sonic traditions in her practice. She has been artist-in-residence, student, fellow and performer at Groundation Grenada, Cave Canem, The Maysles Documentary Center, Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism, and The School of Making Thinking. At The School of Making Thinking, she was a part of the 2018 Immersion 2.0 cohort, where she designed her first Virtual Reality experience which featured herself and asked her to follow her sound design practice. The years following and to this point, she has deepened her music practice as dj and composer. Previously she has worked as a researcher at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Her published writings include: Non Secular Nonsequitur, There's a Monopoly on Change, Interlude, When Money Can't Buy You Home and Basil Grows from Mother Earth.