Dr. Alix Pierre is a senior lecturer in the African Diaspora and the World program and director of cultural orientation at Spelman College. His research focuses on the representation and visualization of Black bodies, voices, thoughts and aesthetics across media in a transnational context. In addition to published articles and book chapters, he is the author of "L'image de la femme résistante chez quatre romancières noires : vision diasporique de la femme en résistance chez Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Toni Morrison et Alice Walker"
(Presses Académiques Francophones : 2014). Since 2015, he has been collaborating with the Miami-based art collective Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator. As the scholar-in-residence he has co-managed International Cultural Exchanges to Guadeloupe (2015, 2017, 2019), Jamaica (2017), Surinam (2016) and Belize (2018). Dr. Pierre is a graduate of Florida State University and l’Université de la Sorbonne.