HipHopRx
Where Beats Meet Breath

Side A
What does health justice look like, feel like, and sound like?
Our Team

Pyar Seth, PhD
Founder / Executive Director, University of Notre Dame

Raney Antoine Jr.
Associate Director of Creative Practice, Loyola University New Orleans

Yokabed Ogbai
Associate Director of Research, Northwestern University

Corey Miles, PhD
Research Associate, Tulane University

Charles Allen Ross
Research Associate, Allegheny College

Antoine Johnson
Research Associate, UC Davis

Jasmine Banks
Research Associate, University of Michigan

Déja Imani Fitzgerald
Graduate Fellow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

James Green
Graduate Fellow, University of Chicago

Isaiah Dunn
Community Partner

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Undergraduate Fellow

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Artist-in-Residence
Designated Emphases

Collaborative Space Curation
The intentional design of environments where artists, scholars, and others can gather without the usual hierarchies or commercial pressures.

Interdisciplinary Art
Creative work that honors the way communities have always created — making new by mixing and remixing forms.

Cross-Genre Experimentation
The practice of moving freely between and beyond established artistic categories, to follow creative synergies across Hip Hop, jazz, R&B, the blues, spoken word, and more.
In the Lab
Research Collaborations
Interdisciplinary research groups that connect scholars, artists, and community members to explore art, health, and the humanities.
Archival Projects
Sonic installations that capture the frequencies and rhythms of everyday life, from underground performances to layered conversations at neighborhood block parties. What does it mean to record history?
Community Listening Sessions
Gatherings and lectures featuring leading academics and artists deeply invested in documenting the creative process and the conditions that allow for transformative art-making.