Views & Voices is a series of brief and personal responses to works of art and film by BAMPFA staff from different departments and UC Berkeley students. At a time of distance, these commentaries are designed to bring you closer both to individual people behind BAMPFA and to individual works in our collections. We hope you'll enjoy hearing these personal views. 

Here, BAMPFA Curatorial Assistant Lucia Olubunmi Momoh looks at a compelling photographic portrait—specifically, a carte de visite—of abolitionist, suffragist, and American civil rights icon Sojourner Truth. She discusses the image in relation to Truth's life and work, as well as to contemporary social justice movements like Black Lives Matter. Momoh, who co-chairs BAMPFA’s Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion task force, envisions her professional museum work as an extension of her social and environmental activism.

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