I am a Los Angeles and Philadelphia-based artist, cultural producer, and community archivist. I’m interested in the intersections of archaeology, art, technology, cultural heritage, anti-capitalism, Black studies and critical theory. My goal is to contribute to a pedagogy of interdisciplinary Memory Work and Africanist epistemologies of knowledge production.
Currently, I am a doctoral student at the University of California, Los Angeles, studying Near Eastern Language & Cultures with a focus on Nilotic cultural memory and modes of production. I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019 with degrees in Near Eastern Language & Civilization and Digital Humanities.
I have previously worked as a cultural producer, educator, curator, and researcher with organizations such as Black Spatial Relics, African Digital Heritage, Scribe Video Center, Paul Robeson House & Museum, and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction. I am also the founder and curator of Memory Studio, an interdisciplinary maker-space reckoning with decolonial knowledge accumulation, production, and speculation. I am co-founder of the Memory Workers Guild, created to interrogate labor practices, Black cultural heritage, and autonomous knowledge production.
My praxis is formed by the past, present, and future continuum of freedom dreaming.