Lisa Woolfork is a scholar, sewist, podcaster, and community organizer whose work sits at the vibrant intersection of Black liberation, craft, and cultural studies. As an Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia, she has spent her career teaching and researching Black literary and cultural studies, with a focus on race, memory, and the ways Black women use art and storytelling to resist oppression and build community. Her work extends beyond the academy into public intellectualism, craft activism, and media production. She has a unique talent for drawing connections between traditional needle arts and Black women’s literary and cultural history, illustrating how sewing has long served as an act of resistance, self-definition, and world-building. Her scholarship interrogates the boundaries between art and craft, social justice and liberation, storytelling and self-making.