EDUCATION
BA in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
WORK EXPERIENCE
2024 Contributing Writer, Pigment International, Chicago, IL
Brand Strategist, Audacity Creative, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Studio Assistant, Glenn Kaino Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Grants Project Manager, HBCU Digital Arts Project, Cooper Worth Wiggins Inc., Atlanta, GA
Arts Administrator, Picture That Art Consultants, Stamford, CT
Social Media Manager, Who's Behind Black Art, New York, NY
Head of Communications, Good Black Art, New York, NY
Creative Director, Atlanta Art Week, Atlanta, GA
2022 Curatorial & Programmatic Assistant, SoLA Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Social Media Manager, Village Micro Fund, Atlanta, GA
2021 Digital & Media Relations Assistant, Resnicow & Associates, New York, NY
2020 Curatorial Intern, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK
2019 Programs Assistant, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
2018 Curatorial / Marketing Intern, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
PUBLISHED WRITING
2024 (forthcoming) Callaloo: PWPF 50th Proceeding Journal
In Memory of Elizabeth Catlett and Margaret Walker's Friendship, Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival Commemoration Journal, Jackson State Researcher
2023 audio labels, Simone Leigh ICA Boston Retrospective
2022 laboring woman poem, Simone Leigh’s Loophole of Retreat Venice
2021 Chakaia Booker and Dalton Gata at ICA Miami exhibition review, Burnaway Magazine
‘the mud at our feet’ at Swan Coach House exhibition review, Burnaway Magazine
2020 Paying Homage to the Black Women icons of Ebony and Jet Magazine exhibition review, Scalawag Magazine
When they say ‘look at God’ poem, Aunt Chloe: A Journal of Artful Candor
If the only evidence of Black womanhood were an abstract painting poem, Aunt Chloe: A Journal of Artful Candor
2017 Gentlewoman poetry chapbook, Howard W. Blake Creative Writing Department
2016 Elevator to the Top Floor poem, Elevators Constructors Journal
2016 Jo Baker’s Birthday poem, South Bend Museum of Art Ekphrastic Poetry After the Collection
PERFORMANCES, SYMPOSIUMS, COLLOQUIA, & INVITED RESEARCH
2024 Artpace Curatorial Residency, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
A Sojourn for Harriett Jacobs, The Harriet Jacobs Foundation, Edenton, NC
The Atlanta Renaissance, Now! Symposium, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
2023 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS
To Sit A While after Alisson Saar, Los Angles County Library, A.C. Bilbrew Branch, Compton, CA
Let Them Consume Me in the Light after Esmaa Mouhamed, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
Black American Portraits Symposium, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
A Love Letter to LA, Superposition Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
James Baldwin at 100, The Charles Reese Experience, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Simone Leigh: Loophole of Retreat Venice, Venice, Italy
Celebrating Naomi Anderson, sculpture unveiling at Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
Museums Professionals Seminar, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2021 Artbash Gala, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
2020 Black Art Futures Innovation Challenge, AUC Art Collective x Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Atlanta, GA
Chipstone Foundation Object Lab, Milwaukee, WI
2019 Amplifying the Legacies of Black Women Abstract Painters, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
The Object of Performance Colloquium, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
2017 Jasmine Mans & Friends, Apache, Atlanta, GA
Rudy Francisco & Ignite Poetry Collective, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA
2016 NAACP ACT-SO Achievement Program, Baltimore, MD
CURATOR
2023 Introduction to Sunlight Pop-Up Gallery, Glendale, CA
2022 Art For the Climb: Mmasechaba (byChabz), Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen, Eagle Rock, CA
BLACK WOMEN BEEN CALLED MANY THINGS, Parlor, Atlanta, GA
CURATORIAL ASSISTANCE
2019 The Chicago Imagists: Before and After, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
Nature vs. Everything, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
2018 Waiting For A Sign, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
Warhol: Icon & Influence Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
VOLUNTEER
2024 Vibrant Michigan City Placemaking Committee, Michigan City, IN
The Black Girl Takeover Festival, A Long Walk Home, Chicago, IL