Born in Los Angeles to Iranian immigrant parents, Beeta Baghoolizadeh is a digital multimedia artist and a scholar of modern Iranian history. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is an Associate Research Scholar at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University. Her book, The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran, is forthcoming Spring 2024 with Duke University Press. Baghoolizadeh's art,“Diaspora Letters,” uses abstracted illustrations of her own relatives to explore nostalgia for the boring and the mundane in Iran and its diaspora.