Djali Brown-Cepeda is a Cultural Preservationist from Munsee-Lenape, Wappinger, and Wecquaesgeek Territories in Lenapehoking (Upper Manhattan and the Bronx), working within archival, film, and television spaces to preserve Latino and Caribbean histories of New York City, celebrate the triumphs of marginalized communities, and dispel one-note narratives often associated with Black, Brown, and Native folk within visual media.

A Kiskeyana Taína and Afro Native (non-enrolled descendant of Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, Powhatan and Comanche Nations) Olorisha Yemayá (initiated priestess within La Regla de Lucumí), her work is rooted in the tenants of remembrance, reclamation, and rematriation, centering oral tradition and lived experiences as pathways toward restoration of identity, culture, and history.

She is the founder of NuevaYorkinos, a digital archive and multimedia project documenting Latino and Caribbean New York City through family photographs, videos, and stories. Running the project with her life partner, the two have amassed over 1,000 personal stories and more than 2,500 visual media since its inception in 2019, and have exhibited in countless spaces, from El Museo del Barrio to MoMA PS1. Her work has been featured in publications like The New Yorker, Dazed Digital, The New York Times, Latina Magazine, and has led her to speak at various institutions, including Columbia University, Barnard College, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and TIME Magazine.  

A writer, she shares her work on Sweet Earth Flying, a self-published blog on many things, including reciprocity and gratitude, ancestral veneration and traditional knowledge systems.