Dessane Lopez Cassell is a curator, writer, and editor based in Brooklyn. She has organised curatorial projects and screenings for The Museum of Modern Art, Flaherty NYC, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), and elsewhere, and she chairs the experimental film subcommittee for BlackStar Film Festival. Cassell’s writing has been published in catalogues issued by the Whitney Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and MoMA, among others, and she currently serves as Editor of Reviews at Hyperallergic.