SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
Co-creator, Producing Director, Against Gravity: Flying Afrikans + Other Urban Legends (World Premiere January 2025) 651 Arts
Contributing Artist, Echo Making (multimedia installation), with André M Zachery York College
(Moderator) Erol Josué 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 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
Co-producer, Carceral Fictions & Abolitionist Realities
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
Roots.Wounds.Words, 3rd Space (NonFiction)
Docu-poetics: Between the Stanza and Archive, Urban Arts Space, The Ohio State University
Festac '77: Witnesses, Art Histories, and Documents, The New Art School Modality / MCA Chicago
Digital Storytelling, Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective
The Dance and Performance Institute, Trinidad and Tobago, New Waves!
Wild Seed Retreat (Poetry), Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College
DEAR Fellowship, Caribbean Cultural Center - African Diaspora Institute
Voices of Our Nation Foundation (Adaptation)
Voices of Our Nation Foundation (Poetry/ Memoir)
Liberatory Memory Workshop, Chicago Torture Justice Center
City Bureau Reporting Fellowship
Black Metropolis Research Consortium Fellowship
Thread: Storytelling in Modern Media, Yale University, (Inaugural )
Vocalo Storytellers Workshop, Chicago Public Media
Families for Freedom Speakers Bureau
City Lore/ Transom Documentary Institute (Inaugural)
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