Ajuan Mance

Ajuan Mance is a visual artist, author, editor, and professor of English at Mills College in Oakland, California. Inspired by Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day?, she created the groundbreaking series 1001 Black Men, a collection of portraits produced over six and a half years that evolved into this book. She is a prolific maker of zines and comics and the author of Living While Black: Portraits of Everyday Resistance. You can learn more about her work at ajuanmance.com.