Ali Roseberry-Polier’s background is in community organizing and activist storytelling, connecting present-day movements to legacies of resistance. They graduated from Swarthmore College in 2014 with a B.A. in History and Gender & Sexuality Studies, and from Rutgers University-Newark in 2020 with an M.A. in American Studies, with a focus on Public Humanities. In addition to PAOHP, other archival and storytelling projects they’ve worked on include as the research assistant on the Black Liberation 1969 archive (Swarthmore College) and as the producer for the Craft of Campaigns podcast (Training for Change). Ali’s writing has appeared in Waging Nonviolence and Hidden City Philadelphia, among others.