Tempestt Hazel is an independent curator, writer and director of Sixty Inches From Center, an arts publication and archiving initiative. Over the years she has worked in arts administration, curating, and multidisciplinary programming at Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago Park District, and Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago. Her writing has been published in Support Networks, Institutions and Imaginaries, and Unfurling: Explorations in Art, Activism and Archiving, as well as for Artslant, Hyde Part Art Center, the Broad Museum MSU and Duke University.