Nafees Khan
Lead Content Developer
Nafees Khan is a Lead Content Developer in RAA’s New York Studio. He is a scholarly researcher whose areas of expertise include writing interpretive concept documents, exhibit descriptions, interactive media treatments, and content and script outlines. His work emphasizes centering diverse, often marginalized histories, experiences, and voices to support justice, equity, and inclusion in cultural heritage institutions.
Nafees serves on the Operational Committee for the Slave Voyages Consortium, leading numerous presentations on this digital humanities resource at conferences and workshops for educators nationwide. He is a member of the administrative team of the African Diaspora Consortium, where he helped develop a new Advanced Placement (AP) Seminar course with African Diaspora Content in collaboration with the College Board.
Nafees holds a PhD in Educational Studies from Emory University and a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in History from Tufts University. His doctoral research was on how the history of slavery was presented in secondary U.S. and Brazilian history textbooks, and his academic interests focus on the legacies of slavery in education and the experiences of Afro-Brazilians, African Americans, and other diaspora communities.