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What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.
—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965
Michele Thorpe
Michele Thorpe is a native New Yorker, majoring in Social Science with a double concentration in Media Studies and History at New York University. From the perspective of an African-American woman of Nigerian and Scottish descent, Michele’s research looks at topics regarding how Africans in diaspora are represented through media. Michele is an NYU School of Professional Studies Dean Scholar, and a member of the NYU honor society Alpha Sigma Lambda. She has written a total of four pieces of poetry published in NYU’s Dovetail Magazine. In 2019 Michele received awards from the NYU School of Professional Studies including Program of the Year and Most Valuable Team Member for her community service for children with cancer. Thorpe is currently applying to Master’s programs in Anthropology, and looks forward to continuing to engage in research and create portraits of African across the Black Diaspora.
New York University