Aleema Gray

Aleema Gray is Community History Curator at the Museum of London and PhD History candidate at Warwick University. Her research is funded by the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies and uncovers a community-engaged history of the Rastafari movement in England.

Aleema is also the founding member of the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Young Historians Project. Aleema’s work focuses on documenting Black British history through the perspective of lived experiences.

Her practice is driven by a concern for more historically contingent ways of understanding the present, especially in relation to notions of belonging, memory and contested heritage.