PAST WORK

Community Organizing & Movement Building

Innovation Strategy
Facilitation & Collaboration Design
Cooperative Research & Development
Community Organizing
Faith Based Cultural Organizing
Labor Organizing
Social Media Consulting
Youth Organizing

Artistic & Creative Activism

Design Team, Constellations Cultural Strategy Convening, 2020
Dream Lab/Creative Activism, Atlantic Fellows Gathering, 2019
Afro-futurist Design Lab Facilitation, Law for Black Lives, 2016 - 2020
Design Research, Funding Boston Area Movement Building, 2015
Narrative Strategy Design, Ujima Boston, 2016
LIME Artist of Color Activation Series,​2016-2017
Creative Action Design Labs, 2​015
Creative Community Engagement Action Design, Future Boston, ​2015
Social Media Engagement, GoBoston2030, ​2015
Narrative Design, Missourians Organizing for Reform & Empowerment, 2​015
Creative Action Planning, YouthJobsCoalition, 2015
Narrative Design & Cultural Organizing, MYTOWN, 2​014
Affiliate, Beautiful Trouble, 2​013-present
Change the Game Carnival Kit Design, City Life/Vida Urbana, ​2012
Board Member, Center for Artistic Activism, (Terry Marshall)
Trainer, Center for Story-Based Strategy, (Terry Marshall)
Founder, Streets is Watching, (Terry Marshall)
Founder, Hip Hop Media Lab, (Terry Marshall)
Leftist Lounge (TerryMarshall), 2003-2011

Commissions & Exhibitions

BeyondPrisons, WeBreathe, T​heBreatheAct,​ 2020 
We Are Their Wildest Dreams, W​ho Owns Black Art,​ Miami Art Week, ​2019 
HOME, collaboration with Christopher Cozier, commissioned by Design Studio for Social Intervention, ​2017 
Immigrant Artists Micro-residency, ​2017 
Artists in Residence, Survival Pending Renaissance, ​Occupancies, B​oston University, 2​017 

Workshops & Speaking Engagements
Giving Birth to the Future Beyond Apocalypse: Worldbuilding from the Black Imagination in the Time ofCorona, ​2020
Designing Wakandas, ImmersiveDesignSummit, 2​019
Black Spaces & Real Wakandas, Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, 2019
Afro Comic Con, Wakanda Dream Lab,
Black Portraitures, Critical Race Design,
WakandaCon NYC,​ 2018
Comics, Pop Culture & Activism, New York ComicCon,​ 2018
Entertain Change, Pop Culture Collaborative, 2​018
Contending for Dreamspace, Open Society Institute, ​2017
Creative Change Retreat, Opportunity Agenda, 2​017
Globalization of Blackness & Black Music, Black History Month Panel @ Spotify, 2​017
Shape of an Absence, SXSW.edu,​ 2017
Shape of an Absence, AIGA Design Education Conference
Generation Citizen, “Can Millenials Save our Democracy?”, OurBLOCConference, “TheUprising”,​ 2015
Transformative Media Organizing Project, “Battle of the Story”, 2​015
Afro Futures: Black Speculative Fiction & Social Justice, 2​015
“Battle of the Story” , AlliedMediaConference, 2​014
MIT Co-Lab Storytelling Lab, 2​014
Trinity College International Hip Hop Festival, Cultural Organizing, State of Race Conference,

Fellowships & Awards

Butterfly Lab Narrative Strategy Fellow, Race Forward, (Aisha Shillingford) ​2020
USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, Civic Media Fellow, (TerryMarshall)​ 2020
New INC Incubator, Year 7 Cohort,​ 2020
Laundromat Project Creative Change Fellowship​ 2020

Publications

The Black Body Survival Guide,​ forthcoming
Black Freedom Beyond Borders: A Wakanda Immigration Anthology (w/Wakanda Dream Lab), 2​018
Contending for Dreamspace,​ Grantmakers In the Arts, 2020
OccupyComix,​ 2012
Hip Hop as Open Source,2​007