Welcome!

Quick Facts: Graduate of Lewisville High School in North TX (Go Farmers!) and Yale University (BA in African Studies). Professional dot-connector, writer, and communicator. Current Californian. Product of the U.S. via West Africa, Western Europe, and the California Cryobank. Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Moon, Capricorn Rising. Singer. Dancer. Actor/Improvisor. Traveler. Over thinker.

Some of my work:

Audio

• Host: Golden 1 Credit Union Community Minds of Gold Podcast
• NPR 
• StoryCorps
• Modern Mystic Chronicles (Also an essay)

Writing

• CalMatters
  • Local government is key to establishing equity in California
  • The work starts now to improve our approach to hunger, food assistance
• Comstock’s Magazine 
• Los Angeles Times 
• The Sacramento Bee 
  • Art exhibition in Sacramento explores ‘the transition between black and white’
  • Pregnancy can be life-threatening for black women. SB 464 can change the equation
• Salon 
• Teen Vogue 
• Yale Alumni Spotlight 

In the news

• Smithsonian
• The Atlantic
• CalMatters 
• Capitol Weekly
• Global Citizen
• Los Angeles Times
• Politico

Video

• Whirlpool – “Renee”
• Ancestry.com commercial
• Black in Green: An Ecological Exploration of Black Relationships with Nature
• First Kiss – The Lost Takes