Based in North Carolina, Endia Beal creates visual narratives inspired by her personal experience and concerns for social justice. Beal received her MA in Photography from Yale—the only Black person in her class—and, while working part-time to put herself through school, produced her first videos examining the uneven power dynamics and uncomfortable experiences of women of color in corporate settings. Employed until recently as a professor of art at an HBCU in Winston-Salem, she gives voice to her female subjects, many of whom were her students, as they questioned the need to change their names or conform to gender norms in order to succeed. Beal presents striking tableaux of young women in interview outfits set against a printed backdrop of a white-collar office spaces and creates formal headshots of white middle-aged women whose hair has been arranged into typical “Black” hairstyles, as a way to narrow definitions of gender, race, and identity within our culture.