Sha’Mira Covington is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors at the University of Georgia. Her research explores fashion as an embodied cultural, historical, social, and political phenomenon involved in and affected by histories of colonial domination, anti-colonial resistance, and processes of decolonization and globalization. Her personal, artistic, and spiritual work is informed and guided by her ancestors, communities in which she lives, nature, Spirit, and love.