Imaan
Ali.

I'm a high school student doing work most people wait until grad school to attempt. As a Research Assistant at Brown University, I contribute to a collaborative digital archive documenting the histories of Indigenous enslavement in the Americas — working alongside Indigenous scholars, community partners, and academic researchers to ensure historical accuracy and cultural sensitivity.

I'm also the author of Chains of Captivity, Colonial Power, and Archival Erasure — a research paper on Native American slavery and the epistemological structures that erased it from the historical record. And I hold a provisional patent for OCCT, a system that tracks whether politicians actually keep their promises. History, technology, and justice are inseparable. That's what I build toward.