About me
New Orleans native, Shantrelle P. Lewis, a United Nations Programme for People of African Descent Fellow, is a multi-hyphen creative and scholar who accesses multiple disciplines to help elucidate African Diasporic history, aesthetics, culture, and spirituality. Her directorial debut, IN OUR MOTHERS' GARDENS premiered on NETFLIX and is distributed by Ava DuVernay's ARRAY. The film won the Shine Award for Best Film from a Philadelphia-based filmmaker at BLACKSTAR FILM FEST in 2020. Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style, her highly acclaimed first book, was published by Aperture in 2017. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, LA Times, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, NPR, BBC, Washington Post, Slate, The New Yorker, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She co-founded SHOPPE BLACK with her husband and fellow Howard alum, Tony Oluwatoyin Lawson. Shantrelle is an initiated Lucumi Sango Priest. Also, a self-identifying Hoodooist, she can be found waxing poetics about all things African spirituality online at Beaucoup Hoodoo.
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