april l. graham-jackson is a proud third generation Black chicagoan, former music journalist, phd candidate, and berkeley Black geographies fellow at uc berkeley in the geography department. my research explores how music and sound illuminate the ways Black chicagoans internalize emplacement, navigate urban to suburban migration, and confront how racial capitalist and geographic development reshapes a sense of (un)belonging within Black chicagoland. through music, sound, and auditory placemaking, i examine how Black people define and (re)produce geographic Blackness and the everyday rhythms of Black urban and suburban life. i am the founder of the Black geographies graduate student conference, chair of the Black geosonicologies research group, and i recently published “Black scale: constructing 'haunted' overpasses as relational methodologies” with robert moeller in the professional geographer. graduated summa cum laude and phi beta kappa from mount holyoke college with a bachelor's degree in Black geographies.