Isaiah Blake

I am an incoming PhD student in Geography at the University of California, Berkeley from Brooklyn, NY. As an artist, thinker, and educator, I'm committed to producing work that prioritizes critical thinking combined with a devotion to Black ways of knowing and being.

Grounded in an understanding of unnatural disaster and naturalized black death, my project seeks to analyze, uncover, and develop methods for responding to ecological collapse, particularly ones that can account for the complexities of Black placemaking, Black gender and queerness, and the sustainable design strategies demanded by our ever-changing climate crisis. I call this project Black Disaster.