DJ Spinderella of Salt-N-Pepa to join National Public Housing Museum as curator

A rendering of the National Public Housing Museum. The larger museum will be housed in the last remaining original building of the Jane Addams Homes, a public housing complex built in the 1930s. (Courtesy of National Public Housing Museum)

DJ Spinderella spent her formative years living in public housing in Brooklyn, New York, with her parents and five siblings. 

Her family’s records were on a loop, as well as the music of DJs from outside the projects. She remembers the sounds of Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and James Brown.