Education
UC Berkeley - Masters of Social Work | 2014-2016
Fordham University - BA, Urban Studies and African & African-American Studies | 2005-2009
Professional Experience
IDEO, Senior Design Lead | November 2020-Present
The Center for Cultural Power, Project Manager | August 2020-March 2021
Cultural Engagement Lab, Special Projects Manager | September 2020-December 2020
The International Center of Photography, Senior Manager of Teen Programs and Neighborhood Engagement | June 2017-December 2020
Youth Speaks, Manager of Bay Area Programs | May 2016-June 2017
Urban Arts Partnership, Program Manager | September 2010-July 2014
Residencies + Awards + Affiliations
2021
New INC, Member, Future Memory Track
FABnyc, Commissioned Artist
Pioneer Works, Technology Residency
2020
The Laundromat Project, Create Change Artist-in-Residence
Lower East Side Community Cultural Council, Council Member
2019
The Laundromat Project, Create Change Artist-in-Residence
Independent Curators International, Curatorial Intensive, New Orleans
2018
Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum Education Practicum
The Wing DUMBO, Scholarship Recipient
2017
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellow
Pro Arts Gallery, 2×2 Curator-in-Residence
2016
Southern Exposure, Alternative Exposure Grantee for Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare: Dean’s Social Justice Award, Ralph M. Kramer Award for Outstanding Management & Planning Student, Dean's Emerging Leader Award
UC Berkeley Division of Equity and Inclusion, Innovation Grantee for Cal Anti-Racism Collaborative
National Association of Social Workers, Verne LaMarr Lyons Scholarship Recipient
Emerging Arts Professionals of the Bay Area, Fellow
Selected Talks
2020
Disrupting Gentrification in NYC, Panelist, ApexArt, Online | December 2020
Create Change: Artist-in-Residence Final Presentations, The Laundromat Project, Online | November 2020
On Art and the Housing Crisis, Art on the Ground, FIT, Online | October 2020
"Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Shifting Power through Counter-Narratives and Data Justice," Co-Presenter, KADIST: Ways of Reading Symposium, e-flux | February 2020
2019
"Counter-Mapping Evictions in NYC: The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project," Panelist, Fordham University Mapping (In)Justice Symposium | November 2019
"Optics: The Visuals of Gentrification," Panelist, ICP at Abrons Art Center | October 2019
"Radical Mapping with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project," Presenter, WYFY School | August 2019
"New Media Intimacies: Staying Power & Anti-Eviction Mapping Project," Presenter, Independent Curators International | August 2019
"Photovoice: A Tool for Engaging in Critical Investigation," Workshop Facilitator, Columbia University, 5th Annual School Social Work Conference | June 2019
"Photo Cafe: A Fair Industry," Panelist, Seeing Collective/Brooklyn Central | May 2019
"Oral History 101 with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project," Workshop Facilitator, Picture the Homeless | April 2019
2018
"For Freedoms: Home & Abroad," Town Hall Moderator, ICP Museum | October 2018
"Open House: The Image & Social Change," Panel Moderator/Organizer, Open Engagement Conference | April 2018
2017
"Past Presence Artist Talk," Moderator, Pro Arts Gallery | September 2017
2016
"Pink Governmentality: Space, Gender, and the Politics of Pink in Mexico City," Lecture, UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative | May 2016
"Narratives of Displacement: The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project," Workshop Presenter, Allied Media Conference | June 2016
Selected Writing
Art Handler Magazine, "End of Year Issue," Contributor | December 2020
Grant Makers in the Arts Reader, “Embedded Arts and Culture is Essential to Our Healing,” Co-Authored with Terra Graziani | Summer 2020
Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, “Five Tips for Arts Educators,” by Ilk Yasha | Spring/Summer 2019
Radical History Review, “(Dis)location, Black Exodus, and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project,” Co-Authored with Erin McElroy and Adrienne Hall | August 2010
UC Berkeley Mellon Global Urban Humanities Program: Mexico City Studio, "Pink Governmentality: Space, Gender, and the Politics of Pink in Mexico City" | June 2016