Producer | Archivist | Writer 

Djali Brown-Cepeda is a Cultural Preservationist and Award-winning filmmaker from Lenapehoking (New York City), working within archival, film, and television spaces to preserve Black and Brown stories. As an Afro-Indígena Caribeña and Olorisa Yemayá (initiated priestess of the Lucumí tradition), her work is rooted in remembrance, reclamation, and rematriation, centering oral tradition and lived experiences as pathways toward cultural restoration.

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 stories and 2,500 visual media since its inception in 2019, 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, the MET, and TIME Magazine.  

A writer,  she shares her work on Ancestral Allchemy, a self-published blog and wellness space rooted in reciprocity and gratitude, ancestral veneration and traditional knowledge systems.


CONTACT: DJALI@NUEVAYORKINOS.COM

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