- Achieved prominence through her early 1990s photographic project The Kitchen Table Series
- While in her early twenties Weems was politically active in the labor movement and as a union organizer
- Her recent work Slow Fade to Black (2010) explores the lost image and memory of African American female entertainers, including singers, dancers, and actresses, in the twentieth century by playing on the idea of cinematic fade
- She has also used fabric, text, audio, and digital images in her work
A woman whose goal is to advocate for her community. She does not know the struggles that she will face in doing so and the consequences she will face.