Bushra Junaid (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist-curator and author whose work probes history, memory, identity and placemaking. Junaid’s landmark project What Carries Newfoundland and Labrador in the Black Atlantic at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery (2020) included video, mixed media, mural, and photo-based works by Canadian and international artists as well as rare archival items pivoting on Paul Gilroy’s concept of the “Black Atlantic” and reflecting on John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea (2015). In 2016, Junaid curated (with Pamela Edmonds) New-Found-Lands: An Art Project Exploring Historical and Contemporary Connections between Newfoundland and the Caribbean Diaspora at Eastern Edge Gallery. Junaid wrote and illustrated the well-received The Possible Lives of WH, Sailor (Running the Goat Books & Broadsides, 2022) about the remains of a 19^th century sailor discovered in Labrador in the late 1980s. Junaid has exhibited across Canada and in the US and her work is in public, private and corporate collections. Junaid holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design and Master of Architecture from the Technical University of Nova Scotia.