kianna simone dieudonné

I’m ki (she/they), a scholar, story collector, and community-rooted researcher working at the intersections of Black Diasporic land relations in the US, environmental justice, ancestral memory, and embodied knowing. My work is grounded in Black feminist and anticolonial traditions, and guided by a deep commitment to collective liberation, ecological care, and generational healing.

Whether I’m conducting ethnographic interviews, leading interpretive educational programming, analyzing archival fragments, writing poetry, naturalizing, or crocheting, I ask:

• What can our connections to land – what I call, Black land relations – teach us about repair, resilience, and collaboration?
• What kind of futures become possible when we center Black life, memory, and imagination?
• In a time of ecological and social reckoning, how might Black land-based practices illuminate new paths toward belonging, justice, and co-thriving?

This site is a living record of my research, writing, and collaborative community work