Candace Borders

Candace is a 6th year PhD Candidate in American Studies and African American Studies. She received her BA in American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. Her work revolves around the intersections of race, gender, class, and public assistance. Her dissertation is an interdisciplinary history of Black women’s housing activism between 1947-1980 in St. Louis, Missouri and is grounded in Black women’s quotidian and large-scale modes of refusal. As an arts educator and curator, she has worked at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis in various roles. Currently, she is the inaugural Community Curator at the Washington University in St. Louis Special Collections where she is preparing an archival exhibition on St. Louis’s public housing history.