Simone Cambridge is a Bahamian researcher examining transatlantic slavery, diasporic identity, postcolonialism, and race in visual culture and curatorial theory. She holds a BA from McGill University in Art History and International Development with a minor in Urban Systems Geography. She has received the 2016 All Bahamas Merit Award (The Bahamas Ministry of Education), the 2018 Archie Malloch Award for Public Learning (McGill University), and the 2019 Arts Undergraduate Research Award (McGill University).

Her research has been published by the McGill University Department of Art History and Communications, the Journal of Black Canadian Studies, and Hyperallergic. Simone is an Advisory Board member for the Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery, Communications Coordinator at Concordia University’s research hub Thinking Through the Museum, and is currently the 2021 Curatorial Fellow at New Local Space in Kingston, Jamaica.