Amira McLendon is a Black American curator and emerging archivist. She is currently collections manager at Memorialize The Movement.

Portrait of a young woman with glasses, a black bandana, and long dreadlocks, wearing a black T-shirt with yellow text that reads 'Memorialize the Movement.'

Amira McLendon (she/they) is a visual artist and emerging curator from Apple Valley, Minnesota, currently based in Minneapolis. She holds a BA in Art from the University of Minnesota. Her artistic practice focuses on digital illustration and explores diverse storytelling from a curatorial lens. McLendon sees art and curation as mediums for calling upon social change and justice, using said work to unearth the untold stories and amplify the voices of people that have often been overlooked by traditional institutions and museums. Her work advocates for LGBTQ+ individuals, Black and Indigenous communities, and People of Color. McLendon is the Collections Manager for Memorialize The Movement, where she continues to blend her artistic visions with her commitment to preserving, honoring, and uplifting forgotten and undervalued communities and narratives.

Currently she is an Archiving the Black Web fellow through their Web Archiving (WARC) program where she is attaining skills to learn how to archive materials on the internet. In the Fall of 2026 she plans to begin a program in Library Science (MLIS).