Selected Curriculum Vitae

Degrees

M.F.A., Writing, Pratt Institute

B.A., Religious Studies, Wake Forest University

Exhibitions

Paintings + Poetry Carrboro, NC

Solo Exhibition at Carrboro Town Hall February - April 2022

Residencies

Attic 506 Chapel Hill, NC

Artist in Residence October 2021 - October 2023

Workshops

WalkMe

Sweetgum Workshop June 2022

I conducted a one-hour virtual speaking engagement on the topic of freedom with WalkMe+Me and BIPOC ERGs in commemoration of Juneteenth based on “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” by Audre Lorde. The session delved into how poetry has served as a freeing and healing methodology and how we can access this power for today’s challenges. The workshop included mindfulness and a brief creative writing prompt. WalkeMe is an American multinational software-as-a-service company, with headquarters in San Francisco, California.

Snapdragon Journal

Sweetgum Workshop July 2021

This virtual poetry writing workshop entitled “Water Work” centered the poetry of black women and femmes with an emphasis on drawing inspiration from the element of water. Mindfulness poetry and a tank drum sound bath were included.

Warren Wilson College Swannanoa, NC

Sweetgum Workshop February 2021

This workshop centered the writing of Alexis Gumbs, Audre Lorde, and Lucille Clifton, providing space for participants to work with water to create and shape whatever healing, loving, and delicious words were needed to support their ease. A tank drum sound bath was included.

Wake Forest University Winston Salem, NC

LIVE ART! Series Guest Speaker November 2020

Online guest lecture for Professor Lynn Book’s Performance Art class at Wake Forest University, exploring poetry, presence, absence, time-space alterity, rights, and wrongs.

The Octavia Project Brooklyn, NY

Poetry Workshop Facilitator Summer 2017 

I developed poetry workshop curriculum and prepared instructional material for students’ creative development, initiating, facilitating and moderating workshop discussions. I evaluated students’ creative work and provided tailored feedback and constructive suggestions.

Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers Brooklyn, NY

Workshop Facilitator December 2017

I taught Dreaming Double, a pay-what-you-can poetry workshop which bridged sleeping and waking dream lives through poetry, using it as a malleable dream space. My workshop was a part of a four workshop series at Spoonbill called “Speculative Imagination.”

Mott Haven Reformed Church Bronx, NY

Workshop Facilitator December 2016

B.R.E.A.T.H.E.: Circle for My Sistas Winter Retreat – I was a featured performer and workshop leader, teaching the poetry of Lucille Clifton. This event is a free intergenerational retreat for women of African descent to be free and in community with one another, encouraging Balance, Restoration, Empowerment, Affirmation, Transformation, Healing, and Embodiment.