Brigette Supernova is an emerging legal scholar, photojournalist, cultural critic, and digital asset management consultant whose work traces how humanity, systems of power, and creative expression shape public memory, cultural meaning, and transform our collective legal landscape.
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Growing up in northwestern Indiana and Chicago, she found meaning in helping others, documenting lives, and developing visual stories as a form of communication. After earning a BFA in Photography and a BA in Art History, she completed an M.A. in Art History, Theory & Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she wrote her thesis on the visual and cinematic work of director Hype Williams. Photography became her second language — a way to witness, express, and elevate the worlds she moved through.
Today, Brigette brings her deep background in visual culture into her work as a Juris Doctor candidate, where she focuses on digital evidence and forensics, human rights, cyber and AI governance, child exploitation, and the structural conditions that shape harm, access, and lived experience. Her scholarship examines how images, information systems, and unequal power dynamics intersect with law. She brings a culturally sensitive, equity-centered approach to legal analysis, constructing legal frameworks that honor human dignity and equitable progress, and advocating for reforms that make legal practices more humane, transparent, and sustainable.
Over more than twenty years, Brigette has built a uniquely interdisciplinary career across publishing, news, entertainment, philanthropy, human rights, and legal advocacy and scholarship. She has served as a photo director, visual strategist, and digital-asset manager for organizations including Oxfam, Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rights, WTTW & Chicago History Museum’s Studs Terkel Archives, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Daily Beast, and a number of high-profile private clients. She has hired and directed hundreds of photographers globally, managed large-scale multimedia projects, and developed trauma-aware, ethically grounded frameworks for visual communication and digital preservation. Brigette has also dedicated much of her adult life to volunteering with organizations that support underserved communities, animal welfare, and legal advocacy.
Brigette’s work is united by a commitment to clarity, ethics, curiosity, and compassion. Whether she is photographing a performance, managing an archive, researching legal narratives, or writing about cultural histories, she believes deeply in storytelling as a tool for truth, connection, and collective dignity.