https://www.taoleighgoffe.com/videos daily 0.75 2026-03-26 https://www.taoleighgoffe.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-03-26 https://www.taoleighgoffe.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5d90978cde71344fe0830f/47039934-2e7b-4d57-8be0-103f3a868476/Tao+Headshot.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5d90978cde71344fe0830f/c087e651-1143-40ed-b650-9e06b09b23b1/Tao+%28Twitter+Header%29-2+2.JPG Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5d90978cde71344fe0830f/66509c44-1a55-4e02-b1f0-1919c6beb024/speaking.jpeg Home - Make it stand out Dr. Goffe participating in a panel on race and coloniality at the National Archive. January 24 , 2020, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5d90978cde71344fe0830f/57ebdbdc-634a-4072-b2ea-374a0bf26977/20230718SM762.JPG Home - Make it stand out Dr. Goffe participating in AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Digital Humanities panel at the Library of Congress. July 18, 2023, Washington DC. https://www.taoleighgoffe.com/bio daily 0.75 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5d90978cde71344fe0830f/9404f137-ead5-4fe5-bc38-a8a349edd86e/Tao+Headshot.jpg bio - tao leigh goffe Tao Leigh Goffe is a critically-acclaimed writer, theorist, and interdisciplinary artist who grew up between the UK and New York City. For the past fifteen years she has worked as an academic and has been invited to give keynote lectures in her specialities of colonial histories of race, geology, climate, and media technologies. Dr. Goffe lives and works in Manhattan where she is an Associate Professor at Hunter College, CUNY and CUNY Graduate Center in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Dr. Goffe’s debut book on how the climate crisis is a racial crisis is called DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday and Hamish Hamilton (Penguin UK, 2025)). It has been celebrated in the New York Times, the Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, the Atlantic, and Publisher’s Weekly. Her second book, which is forthcoming, BLACK CAPITAL, CHINESE DEBT, (Duke University Press) presents a long history of racialization, modern finance, and indebtedness. It brings together subjects of the Atlantic and Pacific markets from 1806 to the present under European colonialism. Her third book MILK: A HISTORY AND A FUTURE (Doubleday) is a memoir on the intimate economics and history of American mothering, surrogate love, and breastfeeding. Her research explores Black diasporic intellectual histories, political, and ecological life. Dr. Goffe was a fellow at the Harvard University Kennedy School (2024-2025). She studied English literature at Princeton University before earning her PhD at Yale University. As an undergrad she studied under the guidance of Toni Morrison, who inspired her sense of collaborative pedagogy. She also studied dark room photography techniques as well as developing a passion for molecular biology. Dr. Goffe’s research and curatorial work is rooted in literatures and theories of labor that center Black feminist engagements with Indigeneity and Asian diasporic racial formations. Much of her artistic and sound design practice examines the geological bedrock of colonialism. She was an artist-in-residence at Columbia University’s Climate School (2022-2024). She has been a member of NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator for art and technology in New York City since 2022. Tao has provided screenwriting consultation for screenplays, TV show development, and has been an expert legal witness on histories of Black and Asian race relations for court cases. Her life story was featured as the subject of an episode of Hulu’s Your Attention Please, Initiative 29, a television series that celebrates Black heroes and futures on the 29th of each month. Committed to building intellectual communities beyond institutions, she is the founder of the Dark Laboratory, an engine for the study of race, technology, and ecology through digital storytelling (virtual reality (VR) augmented reality (AR) (XR)). Dr. Goffe is also the Executive Director of the Afro-Asia Group, an organization that centers the intersections of African and Asian diasporas, futurity, and radical coalition towards sovereignty. An avid cook, she has given lectures on food histories at museums and has led corporate cooking demos. From aubergine curry to jerk snapper to vegan Jamaican patties, her recipes have been published in cookbooks, magazines, and edited collections. Tao documents her cooking experimentation on ‘Gastropoetics of Tao’ her Instagram / Threads account @taoleighgoffe. Rumor has it, she has been at work on her own cookbook. She tweets @taoleighgoffe; Bluesky: taoleighgoffe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5d90978cde71344fe0830f/1599971740022-Q04ZHC6V8IBM5Z75P4WO/GoffeImage3.png bio - research. theory. praxis. Her interdisciplinary research and art practice examines the unfolding and haunted relationship between imperialism and archives. DJ’ing and the concept of the “remix” is vital to her pedagogy and research. Filmmaking, sound design, digital cartography, and oral history are also integral to her praxis as a creative technologist. Dr. Goffe has held academic positions and fellowships at Harvard University, Princeton University, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins, NYU, and Leiden University in the Netherlands. Her writing has been published in peer-reviewed academic and more public-oriented journals, such as South Atlantic Quarterly, Social Text, Small Axe: A Journal of Caribbean Criticism, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, New York magazine, and Boston Review. Prof. Goffe is also invested in supporting literary infrastructure, and enjoys her role as an editor in Global Black Histories and Theories at Public Books. She has been interviewed by and quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Vice Munchies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5d90978cde71344fe0830f/1600026303559-YFCFDT6O5HLW4HMQ60M7/Screen+Shot+2020-08-20+at+12.56.06+AM.png bio Dr. Goffe has extensive experience as a public speaker. Tao has given recent invited lectures at Harvard University, the Netherlands National Archives, the University of Southern California, Google (NY), and Brown University. Dr. Goffe has experience in a variety of industries, having had short stints at the United Nations, on Wall Street, in museums, academic publishing, and tech startups. She is a fellow of the Linnaean Society. She also enjoys attending technology roundtable discussions at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City which she has been participating in since 2011. https://www.taoleighgoffe.com/art daily 0.75 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5d90978cde71344fe0830f/d0d63f35-f9b4-4ca4-95b4-344e194e0689/IMG_3669.jpg creative practice "Indebted Literacies," Maternal Imprinting, (2021). From a series that explores the imprint of racial indenture, colonial legacies of debt bondage, and racialization of African and Asian diaspora subjects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5d90978cde71344fe0830f/1649006391109-U3OPUYTMKV762CPBWNYD/IMG_3629.jpg creative practice "Three," Metropolitan Ecologies, (2021) Part of a series on the urban landscape and architecture of women who have historically been paid to care in New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5d90978cde71344fe0830f/51830189-4dba-468a-9fbf-3cbbe266a447/IMG_6384+3.jpg creative practice "What Water Logs" Talk is Cheap, (2022). From an ongoing series on Afro-Asian 'picture brides' that explores what silence communicates over the generations through food, passport photos, and materiality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5d90978cde71344fe0830f/1665617596368-4GQE0LPO78S7VVKQG106/soucouyant%2B-%2Bcaribbean%2Bqueens.jpg creative practice " soucouyant," Caribbean Queens (2021). From a series on myth-making, nightmares, pageantry, and sexuality in the Antilles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5d90978cde71344fe0830f/7d6c6ec3-ce10-4c54-8f64-d219c55f7251/Dirge.jpg creative practice A video still from the sound sculpture "Dirge" produced collaboratively as a monument to Black and Indigenous hemispheric burial (2021). It situates the wall of Wall Street as an architecture of racial capitalism. 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