Emilia Epštajn obtained her BA in Anthropology and MA in Gender Studies at the University of Belgrade. She has developed as a curator primarily through her work at the Museum of African Art in Belgrade and is currently on the executive board of ICOM – Serbia. Recent collaborative projects and research-exhibitions dealt with feminist perspectives on archives, African decolonization processes, non-aligned heritage and the heritage of the Non-Aligned, as well as issues of African art restitution and repatriation. Her writing has been published in exhibition catalogues and academic journals, and she also translates extensively in the field of museology, feminist and art theory. She was awarded the Reconstruction Women’s Fund “Žarana Papić” Stipend (2011) and is alumni of The Robert Anderson Research Charitable Trust (2007, UK) and Open World Leadership Program (U.S. Congress, 2022).