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Dr. Shawn Trenell O’Neal is Associate Director of the Center for African & African American Studies and Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Community Engagement Internships in the Department of Ethnic Studies. He is also a renowned DJ and audio producer. Dr. O'Neal serves as Assistant Director of the RAP Lab (The Laboratory for Ritual Arts and Pedagogy) in the School of Education and is a founding member of Lyripeutics Storytelling: Remixing Our Reality Through Hip Hop Education. His research includes African American studies, Africana studies, musicology, ethnomusicology, queer and trans of color critique, and women of color feminisms. Dr. O'Neal developed an interdisciplinary and intersectional theoretical concept called Audio Intersectionality, upon which he based his dissertation. Audio Intersectionality are interdisciplinary herstories and histories, active responses, self-narratives, self-defenses, traumas, and celebrations, regarding race, gender, and sexuality communicated through sound, music, and performance. Dr. O’Neal’s work appears in Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism (2020).