SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

(Moderator) Erol Josué  talkback DuSable Museum of African American History /Old Town School of Folk Music/ Chicago DCASE 

The Ujamaa Hour Podcast (At The Crossroads of Listening, Language, & Liberation) 

(Roundtable) No Bois Man No Fraid talkback Old Town School of Folk Music

“Shango Electric: Sacred Speech-acts in Black Publics” Black Portraitures IV Harvard University

(Moderator) “Performing Black Masculinities: Where, How and for Whom?” Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts

(Roundtable) “Drafting Memory: Multimedia Journalism & Haiti’s Digital Archive” Caribbean Studies Association Port-au-Prince, Haiti

“Rele Ountogi” Caribbean Studies Association Port-au-Prince, Haiti

(Roundtable) “Ritual, Spiritual, and Digital Technologies in Action” African Diaspora Religious Studies Association Harvard University

“When the Lakou goes Digital” Haitian Studies Association Université de Montréal, Québec

(Moderator) History Tellers: Migration and Community, Beyond Coasts: Haiti in the Mid-West Symposium Northwestern University

“Rasin/Chimen (Roots/Routes)” Bowery Poetry Club

B-Side Caribbean Heritage Month Special BRIC TV

“Coal City Star” Luaka Bop Records/HellaCrisis, NY Art Book Fair MoMA PS1

IFÁ - OHÙN OLÓDÙMARÈ (IFÁ - Voice of Almighty God) - Dr. Ifábùkúnmi Ò. Adéwále

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AUDIO

DrumLanguage, podcapsule exploration of the African Diasporic experience

Feet in 2 Worlds (Fi2W.org/WNYC New York)

The Barbershop Show (Vocalo/WBEZ Chicago)

Haitian All-StarZ Radio (WBAI New York)

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ADVISORY/CURATORIAL

Honey Pot Performance Board of Trustees

#LetUsBreathe Collective Stimulus Package for Humanity

City Lore Young Professionals Advisory Board

Haiti Cultural Exchange Selebrasyon! Festival Advisory Board

Thick Routes Performance Collage Board of Trustees

Artists 4 Reparations Core Committee

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FELLOWSHIPS & SELECTIVE WORKSHOPS

The New Art School Modality @ MCA Chicago, Festac '77: Witnesses, Art Histories, and Documents

The Dance and Performance Institute, Trinidad and Tobago, New Waves!

Center for Black Literature Wild Seed Retreat (Poetry)

Caribbean Cultural Center - African Diaspora Institute DEAR Fellowship

Voices of Our Nation Foundation (Adaptation) 

Voices of Our Nation Foundation (Poetry/ Memoir)

Chicago Torture Justice Center Liberatory Memory Workshop

City Bureau Reporting Fellowship

Black Metropolis Research Consortium Fellowship

Inaugural Thread At Yale

Chicago Public Media Vocalo Storytellers Workshop

Families for Freedom Speakers Bureau

Inaugural City Lore/ Transom Documentary Institute

Kathryn Davis Peace Fellowship (Portuguese), Middlebury College

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ARTIST GRANTS & RESIDENCIES

Center for Cultural Power Constellations Narrative Design Lab

City of Evanston Cultural Fund Grant

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AWARDS

Ippies Award for Best Multimedia Package, Feet in Two Worlds

CIRA Award, The Graduate School at Northwestern University

Herskovits Research Award, Northwestern University

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RECOGNITION

2nd Round, Creative Capital

SemiFinalist, PRX-Google Podcast Accelerator

Finalist, PERIPLUS