She's currently deputy director and chief curator of the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, and is co-organizing the 2020 edition of the Prospect triennial in New Orleans.
In July, El Museo del Barrio, a museum in upper Manhattan devoted to exhibiting and collecting Latinx and Latin American art, issued a statement in response to the family separation crisis at the
California African American Museum deputy director Naima J. Keith has been named the winner of the High Museum of Art’s David C. Driskell Prize, which is awarded annually to a scholar or artist