EDUCATION:
Ph. D. candidate, Environmental psychology, Earth & environmental sciences, The Graduate Center, CUNY, in process.
M. Phil, Environmental psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY, awarded February 2022.
M. A., Environmental psychology, Graduate Center, CUNY, awarded March 2020.
B. A., Urban studies, Columbia University, awarded May 2015.
LEADERSHIP & PROFESSIONAL:
Research associate | Place, Memory & Culture Incubator | Spitzer School of Architecture | The City University of New York | New York, NY | 2024-present
Editorial assistant | Women’s Studies Quarterly | New York, NY | 2023-present
Member-worker | Home Build Collective, Black Visioning Group | Philadelphia, PA | 2022-2024
Copyeditor | Ideas on Fire, LLC | 2022-2024
Board of directors | New Village Press | 2017-2024
Organizing and coordinating committee; Community safety team | Audre Lorde Project | New York, NY | 2017-2020
Equitable public space fellow | Design Trust for Public Space | New York, NY | 2016-2017
Editing assistant; Development & communications manager | New Village Press | New York, NY | 2014-2016
Field manager | Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. | Philadelphia, PA | 2013
TEACHING, MENTORSHIP & FACILITATION:
Co-facilitator | “Foraging the Altar: Play Practices” | Painted Bride | Philadelphia, PA | 2024
Facilitator | “all that you touch”: a collective self and material study | Painted Bride | Philadelphia, PA | 2024
Adjunct instructor | Introduction to Civic Engagement | Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | 2022-2024
Mentor | CUNY Pipeline Program | The Graduate Center, CUNY | New York, NY | 2017-2022
Harvest and culinary instructor | Youth Internship Program | Sankofa Community Farm | Philadelphia, PA | 2021
Facilitator | “Daring to be Powerful” I & II; Outsiderz Series | Audre Lorde Project | 2017-2020
Workshop design & facilitator | “Queer Afrofuturism and QTPOC Placemaking” | With You For You (WYFY) summer school | By Us For Us (BUFU) collective and The School for Poetic Computation | New York, NY | 2019
Facilitator | “They, Who?: Worldmaking with Gender” | BLM in our Schools | New York, NY | 2018
Teaching assistant | Digital Restructuring of Cities (taught by Leah Meisterlin) | Urban Studies | Barnard College | New York, NY | 2015
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
Participatory Action Research Fellow | “People’s Beach Historic Landmarking” | Radical Imagination for Racial Justice | 2022-2023
Research and accessibility consultant | “Disability Justice Community Landscape Mapping Project” [internal project] | Disability Frontlines Fund | Third Wave Fund | 2021-2022
Research assistant | “Understanding the Impacts of Urban Agriculture on Health, Spirituality, and Collective Agency in Philadelphia” | PI: Ashley Gripper | Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health | 2021
Participatory action researcher / facilitator | NYC Unity Project | NYC Mayor’s Office & Public Science Project, CUNY | 2018-2019
Research and production assistant | Pier Kids: The Life [documentary film] | Director: Elegance Bratton | 2013-2016
Research assistant | Mapping banking deserts and financial access | Special Project Office | 2014
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS:
Dissertation Fellow | Center for Place, Culture, and Politics | 2024-2025
Dissertation Fellow | Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean | 2024-2025
Awardee | Paul C. Notari Environmental Studies Grant | Futures Initiative | 2024
Actionist Fellow | Social Practice CUNY | 2023-2024
Research Fellow | Connect New York | Early Research Initiative | 2022
The Restorative City | Mini-grant | Design Trust for Public Space | 2022
Public Research Fellow | PublicsLab | 2020
Awardee | Graduate Pipeline Summer Research & Travel Award | Office of Educational Opportunity & Diversity | 2018
SELECT PUBLICATIONS [click for link]:
PANELS & PRESENTATIONS:
“What is Queer Space?” [panel], Civic Leadership Program, American Institute of Architects: New York Chapter, New York, NY, October 19, 2023.
“Bending historic preservation toward Black queer and trans futures(?),” Black Futures [panel], Black Geographies Graduate Student Conference, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, March 17-18, 2023.
“Audre Lorde’s legacies in place: Embodying erotic potentials of placemaking through Black queer Riis Beach,” Intercultural Resource Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, February 15, 2023.
“SPARK :: On Stonewall” [panel], Athena Center, Barnard College, New York, NY, October 6, 2022.
“Reimagining Riis Beach: Queer histories, urban planning, and opportunities at Riis,” Riis Beach Town Hall, GLITS, Inc., Queens, NY, April 2022.
“Black Queer Times at Riis,” racialization.spectacle.liberation: feminist ruminations on placemaking, memory, and the non-human [panel], Sociologists for Women in Society winter meeting, March 2022.
“Reworking the ‘empty spots’: Attending to the mess of everyday life” [panel], American Association of Geographers annual meeting, February 2022.
“Queer Afrofuturism in Place: Dirt, Matter, and Mattering in Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer,” Afrofutures of Gender, Sexuality, Disability and Education [panel], Race and Its Futures: Teach, Research, Imagine, Futures Initiative, 2019.
“Outside of the Everyday Outside: Queer placemaking at Riis Beach,” Pipeline Research Conference, 2018.
“Out of the closet, onto the beach: Riis Beach as an alternative to NYC Pride,” 50 Years of Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center, 2018.
INSTALLATION & PERFORMANCE ART:
Oral Futures Booth [public art installation pilot], 2022-ongoing, Bay 1, People’s Beach, Jacob Riis Park, Queens, NY.
something soft [performance], 2023, Cannonball Festival, Philadelphia, PA, and something soft [residency, workshop, and performance series], 2024, Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA.
Zero Rest Mass [performance], 2019, Brooklyn Arts Exchange; Brooklyn, NY.
Waste Time [sculpture installation], 2019, MetaDen, Brooklyn, NY.
PEER REVIEW:
Theory, Research, and Action in Urban Education | 2024
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies | 2023
Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography | 2023
TRAINING:
Embodied Storytelling, 2023, Shavon Norris.
Somatics, Trauma, and Resilience: Healing in Our Times intensive course, 2020, Strozzi Institute.
BIPOC FIRE farming immersion program, 2019, Soul Fire Farm.
“TransJustice Community School” community organizing intensive, 2018, Audre Lorde Project.
“Narrating Population Health: Oral History, Disparity, and Social Change” institute, 2015, Columbia University Center for Oral History Research Summer Institute.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Association of Geographers
Landscape Research Group
National Women’s Studies Association
