Bayeté Ross Smith is a photographer, interdisciplinary artist, and educator who explores issues around preconceived notions of identity and how they impact our understanding and engagement in humanity’s past, present, and future. He is a 2021 Creative Capital Awardee, a Presidential Leadership Scholar, a TED Resident, an Art For Justice Fund grantee and a POV/New York Times embedded mediamaker. His work is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Oakland Museum of California, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Brooklyn Museum. The collaborative project Along The Way and Question Bridge: Black Males have shown at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Sheffield Doc Fest in England and the L.A. Film Festival. Ross Smith has created community and public art projects with organizations such as BRIC Arts Media, The Laundromat Project, the NYC Parks Department, the Hartford YMCA, the Jerome Foundation, the California Judicial Council, and San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. He assists with programming and workshops for the Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI), a hospital and school-based violence prevention organization in New York City that partners with Kings County Hospital. He is also a faculty member at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.