Legacy Russell is a writer and curator. She is executive director and chief curator at The Kitchen, New York, USA. She received the Thoma Foundation Arts Writing Award in Digital Art in 2019 and was a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow. Her first book, GLITCH FEMINISM: A Manifesto, was released in 2020. Her second book, BLACK MEME: A History of the Images that Make Us, was also released by Verso Books in May 2024. She lives in New York.