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Khaleelah I. L. Harris (b. 1996 Palm Beach, Florida) is a mixed media collage artist. Khaleelah's research investigates the project of identity formation and self-making practices for upper/middle class Black Women of the eras guided by the post-emancipation racial uplift projects and seeks to develop cultural taxonomies through which we can better determine how this particular group of Black Women enacted beautiful experiments with their lives. Harris earned her Master of Arts in Religion from Yale University in 2021 and is currently a graduate student at Howard University. Harris is also a Du Bosian Scholar and studies African American Freethought.

Harris centers her involvement in the arts around curatorial work with visual arts exhibits that create a visual narrative for her research surrounding her research and the topics of U.S Cultural History, African-American Women's Religious Experience, AfricanAmerican Women and HBCU Formative Years; Southern Life; and Beauty & Fashion Culture. In the Fall of 2021 Harris co-curated the exhibition, Allegories, Renditions, and a Small Nation of Women at 26 Yale Divinity School with Black Collagists Founder Teri Henderson.