Producer | Archivist | Writer 

Djali Brown-Cepeda is a Cultural Preservationist, Archivist, and Award-winning filmmaker from Lenapehoking (New York City), working within archival, film, and television spaces to preserve Black and Brown stories. An Afro-Indigenous, Caribbean Olorisa Yemayá (initiated priestess of the Lucumí tradition), her work is rooted in remembrance, reclamation, and rematriation, centering oral tradition and lived experiences as pathways toward cultural restoration.

Her film credits can be found below.

She is the founder of NuevaYorkinos, a multimedia, digital project dedicated to documenting and preserving New York City’s Latino and Caribbean culture and history through family photographs, videos, and stories. A counter-archive empowering participants to tell their own stories as radical acts of self-determination and liberation, NuevaYorkinos has amassed over 1,000 stories and 2,500 visual media since its inception in 2019, have exhibited in countless spaces, from El Museo del Barrio to MoMA PS1. Her work has been featured in publications like The New Yorker, Dazed Digital, The New York Times, Latina Magazine, and has led her to speak at various institutions, including Columbia University, the MET, and TIME Magazine.  

A writer,  she shares her work on Sweet Earth Flying, a self-published blog.

CONTACT: DJALI@NUEVAYORKINOS.COM

Filmography, Awards & Panels