Imani Roach was Artblog's first Managing Editor. When not working with local art writers or producing her own criticism, she is also a practicing artist, a musician and an occasional lecturer on the arts of Africa and the black diaspora. She received her BA in Art History from Stanford University and is a doctoral candidate in African and African American studies at Harvard, writing on the first generation of black South African photojournalists under Apartheid. She was born in San Francisco and raised in Toledo, OH, but hopes Philly will be her forever home.