Joycelyn Wilson is an educational anthropologist, designer, author, and public scholar whose work explores how Black expressive cultures generate knowledge, inform design, and inspire innovation. An Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, she has spent her career examining Hip Hop as a system of knowledge production and a form of design intelligence, challenging conventional understandings of culture, learning, and creativity.

Wilson is the founder and director of the HipHop2020 Innovation Archive and the creator of Design Remix Logic, a framework that explains how authentic cultural knowledge evolves into new forms of learning, creativity, design, and innovation. Her scholarship has appeared in The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities, the Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, the Journal of Africana Studies, and other academic journals and edited collections, while her public writing has appeared in Billboard, The Conversation, and The Bitter Southerner. She has contributed cultural commentary for NPR, MSNBC, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The New York Times, while her work has informed documentary and television projects exploring Black culture, music, and the American South. She is a member of the Recording Academy and a frequent contributor to national conversations on culture, education, media, technology, and design.

Hacking Hip Hop brings together nearly three decades of Wilson’s scholarship, teaching, archival practice, and public engagement, inviting readers to rethink Hip Hop — and culture itself — as powerful frameworks for generating knowledge, designing communities, and imagining new futures.