Scheherazade Tillet

Co-Founder and Executive Director,

A Long Walk Home

Scheherazade Tillet (she/her/hers) is a photo-based artist, curator, and feminist activist who explores the themes of Blackness, play, freedom, trauma, and healing. She is currently the Executive Director of A Long Walk Home, a nonprofit that she founded with her sister, Salamishah, in 2003, that uses art to empower young people to end violence against girls and women.

Tillet has dedicated her life's work to Black girls, including those who have been marginalized by society and victims of all forms of violence. Her work has been exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Columbia University, Rutgers University-Newark, Project of Empty Space, Woman Made Gallery, Museum of Science of Industry, and featured in Gagosian Quarterly, The New York Times, The Cut, The Guardian, Ms. Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Teen Vogue, ELLE Decor, and Vice. Tillet is nationally recognized for raising public consciousness, changing cultural narratives, and advancing research and policy.

Photo by Felton Edward Kizer