Zakkiyyah Najeebah (b.1991) is a Chicago based visual artist , educator, and independent curator. Zakkiyyah uses photography, video, and mixed media to address the politics and aesthetic values of representation, inclusivity, black womanhood, queerness,  family histories, and shared knowledge. Often her work takes place in the realm of portraiture, documentation, image-making, and educating. Currently, her body of work prioritizes social relationships related to queerness, Black women’s identity formation, chosen family, and the desire for connectedness

Zakkiyyah is also the Co-founder of  CBIM (Concerned Black Image Makers):  a collective driven project that prioritizes the experiences, concerns, and work of lens based artists of the Black diaspora.