Manoucheka Celeste is an associate professor in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is a Black feminist media scholar whose transnational research focuses on media representations of Black women, immigrants and immigration, and tourism, with emphasis on the Caribbean and Black diaspora. An award-winning mentor, she also writes about women of color mentoring. Her publications include the book Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora: Travelling Blackness (Winner of the 2018 National Communication Association Diamond Anniversary Book Award), and ““What Now?”: The Wailing Black Woman, Grief, and Difference” in Black Camera in addition to multiple journal articles and book chapters. She holds a PhD in communication and a graduate certificate in feminist studies from the University of Washington.