ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2026–Present
Agape Artist Residency — DMST Atelier & Transformation Arts
Residency supporting artists and community organizers developing participatory, collaborative, community-attuned, site-based projects. Here, I am developing weave, a multimedia installation using sound, video portraiture, assemblage, and text-based painting to frame intergenerational Black dialogue as necessary infrastructure for a liberated Black future.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES

2025
If I Awaken in Los Angeles - LA Phil | The Ford
Lead Writer & Performer. Multidisciplinary performance integrating poetry, music, dance, and archival video. Premiered at The Ford, Los Angeles. Produced in partnership with the LA Phil.

2024
Cultural Olympiad - Dept of Cultural Affairs Commission | Los Angeles Central Library
Commissioned work presented as part of the Cultural Olympiad supporting the 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games.

London Fog Meets LA Smog: William Blake and David Axelrod | The Getty
Commissioned original poem performed in conjunction with the William Blake exhibition.

A Brief Time
Solo Visual Art Exhibition

SELECTED POETRY PUBLICATIONS

2024
"When the Credits Roll"
Dream Theater — A24

2022
"Tiny Gods"
A Vast Pointless Gyration of Radioactive Rocks and Gas in Which You Happen to Occur — A24

2010
"Rewind"
The New York Times

SELECTED CLIENT COMMISSIONS & CULTURAL COLLABORATIONS

I have created original poetry, led workshops, creative strategy, and cultural campaigns engaging audiences around identity, civic participation, social impact, and collective memory for the following partners: The California Endowment, Dept of Cultural Affairs (City of Los Angeles), The Getty, LACMA, MOCA, Hammer Museum, Arts4LA, Sankofa.org, Community Coalition, UCLA, A24, Puma, Lexus, Fox, March For Our Lives, Into Action Artivist Festival, and more.

TEACHING, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT & COMMUNITY PRACTICE

2024–Present
Director, Creative Career Lab | Get Lit Words Ignite
Creative workforce development initiative serving 75+ justice-impacted young adults through mentorship, arts education, career exploration, and professional development.

2016–2019, 2022-2024
Teaching Artist | Get Lit Words Ignite
Taught classic and response poetry across elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. Guided students in connecting literary traditions to personal narrative through spoken word.

EDUCATION

2014
Cinema Studies & Creative Writing
Manhattanville College, New York