Scott Emerson is a scholar, community organizer, and activist with a love for self-determination, wellness, and social justice.

He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English from Tougaloo College and Southern Illinois University respectively. His scholarship engages race and gender in African American literature, mining it for Afrofuturist liberation formations. Scott works to clarify the bridge between neoslave narrative and Black speculative fiction, add to discourses of liberative Black thought, and help thinkers and communities imagine futures in which ALL Black folks can thrive.

Scott is a proud parent, child, and partner who prioritizes joy, humility, dismantling oppressive systems, critical thinking, imaginative future building, and liberation.

 Highlighted Work:

• Master’s Thesis: “Fight the Powers, Shape God: Earthseed as Afrofuturist Revolutionary Masculinity for Critical Freedom in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower”
• The Justice Fleet

The Justice Fleet is a mobile social justice museum that fosters community-led healing and problem solving through art, dialogue, and play. At the Justice Fleet, we operationalize equitable systems change by adhering to three principles: healing justice, humanizing equity, and community-led intentional action.

 Website: https://www.thejusticefleet.com/