teddy raShaan is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, curator, and cultural preservationist who architects spaces and experiences where Black life is witnessed, preserved, and honored. his work sits at the intersection of storytelling, curation, and spatial design—excavating how communities of color build power, meaning, and futures through narrative. as an artist of space and place, raShaan refuses extraction, instead demanding that marginalized voices be centered as the foundation of how we understand culture, survival, and freedom.

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as curator of religion at the smithsonian national museum of African american history and culture, raShaan has pioneered innovative projects that capture and preserve Black spiritual and religious life in the Americas. he created the museum's first webseries, "gOD-Talk: a Black millennial and faith conversation," a studio-produced webseries tour filmed across LA, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans. the series explored various topics pertaining to Black millennials and faith—hip hop, gender and sexuality, economics, and justice—and won 36 awards. the project then expanded into a feature film, also titled gOD-Talk, that followed the lives of seven Black millennials (atheist, buddhist, christian, muslim, and spiritualist) exploring how they reimagine faith in the 21st century. the feature film won eight awards, was selected for 10+ film festivals, and won best lgbtqia film.