Ibiayi is a Ph.D candidate in the History and Theory of Architecture and African American Studies at Princeton University. Her research and writing explores how blackness haunts the spatial logics of technology. Her work is influenced by constantly fluctuating triangulations between architecture, art, literature, and media. She was an editor of Pidgin and has published writing in the New York Review of Architecture, e-flux, and See/Saw. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D she worked as a Researcher on the urban design of the arts district in Detroit, Michigan, as an Intern in the Architecture and Design Department at the Museum of Modern Art, and as a Manager at Artsy. She holds an M.Arch from Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan.