James, who is of Jamaican parentage, earned her bachelor's degree at
Columbia University in 2009. After Columbia, she worked as an intern at the
Studio Museum in Harlem. James earned her master's degree at
Yale University, where she studied
English literature and
African American studies. While at Yale, she was a co-curator in 2014 at the
Yale University Art Gallery of the exhibition
Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection. James was a
Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the
Museum of Modern Art. The
Brooklyn Museum hired James as an assistant
curator of
contemporary art in 2017. She was lead curator and it was the largest she had ever worked on before. == References ==