Dill, Leconté: - LeConté Dill is the author of Building a Maker Outta Me (Third World Press, forthcoming). She was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, California, the eldest grandchild of four sojourners of the Second Wave of the Great Migration. She is a storyteller, artist, educator, and community-accountable scholar. LeConté is a proud Spelman alumna and holds graduate degrees from UCLA and UC Berkeley. LeConté currently guides, creates, and learns with students, fellow faculty, and community members as the Director of Graduate Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of African American and African Studies at Michigan State University. Her work is critically informed by years of working in partnership with youth and community organizers, policy advocates, and health educators at community-based organizations and public health departments across the U.S. and South Africa. In her research, art, teaching, and advocacy, she aims to listen to and show up for Black girls, in particular, and is committed to documenting their/our strategies of wellness, healing, and resistance. Her writing has been published in a diverse array of spaces, such as POETRY, the Du Bois Review, Feminist Anthropology, Mom Egg Review, and Health Promotion Practice.
