Jacqueline Najuma Stewart is a University of Chicago professor of cinema studies and director of the nonprofit arts organization, Black Cinema House. She has written about the history of African Americans in filmmaking in Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity (2005), co-authored, L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (2015), and with Charles Musser co-curated the DVD set Pioneers of African-American Cinema (2016). Stewart has served on the National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) of the Library of Congress and chaired the NFPB Diversity Task Force. In 2005, she founded the South Side Home Movie Project, which collects, preserves, as a cultural and historical resource, the homemade films of residents of South Side, Chicago, together with interviews of creators.