Anuj Vaidya, Author at Imagining America

April 29, 2026 | News & Press / Publications

Toolkit: Agreement for a Just Partnership with Indigenous Culture-Bearers

Imagining America is pleased to launch a toolkit in collaboration with IA regional partner YoloSol Collective. This Agreement for a Just Collaboration with Bearers of Knowledge and Tradition is intended to build trust and address sensitive issues upfront, when working with cultural knowledge. It is based on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) created by members of YoloSol with Wintun/Maidu/Hupa/Yurok culture-bearer Diana Almendariz.

April 28, 2026 | News & Press

IA Announces 2026 Regional Collaboratories

Imagining America is proud to announce the 2026 cohort for the IA Regional Collaboratories. IA staff reviewed many excellent submissions and we thank all who shared their visions as part of the call for proposals. We selected eight projects that examine how the work of imagining and practices of imagination are critical to organizing personal, institutional, and societal transformation.

April 28, 2026 | Blog / Events

Digital Divestment Roundtable: Re-orienting to Community Tech

The session is open to the entire IA community, and will be hosted by PAGE Fellow Leah Friedman, and IA Communications Director Anuj Vaidya. We invite you to come with your own questions, suggestions for actions, tools, and resources, so that we may establish a community of practice specifically within the IA community, to collectively transition to technologies and platforms that hold privacy, security, and community connection at their core.

April 28, 2026 | IA StoryShare 2025

IA StoryShare, Episode 15: Lizzy Cooper Davis and Ural Grant

For this season of IA Storyshare, we brought together participants from the most recent 2025 IA National Gathering at Las Cruces, NM. In this third episode of the season, theater practitioners/educators Lizzy Cooper Davis and Ural Grant talk about inter-disciplinary practice, working across silos, what sustains them in this work.

April 24, 2026 | Events

Meet IA: May 2026 Session

When: Thursday May 21, 10am PT / 11am MT / 12noon CT / 1pm ETWhere: Virtual, on zoom Join Imagining America for this…

March 29, 2026 | Events

Tools for the Undercommons Speaker Series 2026, Part 2

This IA Collaboratory is organized by professors Jacqueline Jean Barrios and Harris Kornstein (Public & Applied Humanities, University of Arizona), and each virtual event features two guest speakers in a salon-style conversation with attendees. This month’s event features speakers Ana María Álvarez, Associate Professor, Theater & Dance, UC San Diego, and Founding Artistic Director, CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater, and SA Smythe, Associate Professor, Black Studies & the Archive, and Director of the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis, University of Toronto.

March 28, 2026 | Events

Tools for the Undercommons Speaker Series 2026, Part 1

This IA Collaboratory is organized by professors Jacqueline Jean Barrios and Harris Kornstein (Public & Applied Humanities, University of Arizona), and each virtual event features two guest speakers in a salon-style conversation with attendees. This month’s event features speakers Romi Ron Morrison, an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator at UCLA Design Media Arts, and Sarah Biscarra Dilley, a multidisciplinary artist, writer, educator, member of the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash tribe and Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project.