SUMMARY

Cultural strategist and interdisciplinary storyteller with 8+ years of experience designing research-informed narrative frameworks rooted in audience insight, archival practice, and community engagement. Experienced in translating participatory research and community voice into cross-platform storytelling campaigns reaching 50,000+ audiences and sustaining youth programs serving 20,000+ students nationally.

SKILLS

Project Leadership | Program Development | Curriculum Writer

Public Speaking | Outreach | Customer Service | Visual Presentation |

Video Editing | Workshop Curator | Theater Maker | Film Production Management

MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Adobe Apps (Premier & Photoshop)

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama, New York University, New York City, New York

- Minor: Africana Studies

Masters of Race, Media, and Social Justice, Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom

Marshall Scholar, United States and United Kingdom National Award for Graduate Studies

Masters in Filmmaking, London Film Academy(In Progress)

PROFESSIONAL CAREER HISTORY

Director & Producer – Take Two Arts Program Arts Council Collection & Southbank Centre | 2024

● Directed research-driven short film and digital campaign from concept to delivery, shaping narrative

strategy through interviews and stakeholder engagement.

● Managed cross-functional creative teams, production logistics, and narrative alignment.

● Generated 10,000+ impressions across social and web platforms, contributing to renewal of program

funding for an additional academic year.

● Program Impact: supported arts education initiative serving 20,000+ students across the UK.

Reframe Artist in Residence - Apple & Southbank Center, London, United Kingdom | April 2023-August 2023

Musical composer, rapper, and actor for Immersive Audio Visual Exhibition as a part of Apple’s REJI Initiative

  • Created original work in response to a brief given centering Climate change

  • Collaborated with other artists to produce nine 2-minute videos that would be projected and turned into an immersive experience of sounds and visual media.

  • Produced an original score for the exhibition

  • Record live sound with actors on set

Marketing & Communications Coordinator- Kuumba Lynx, Chicago, IL | November 2024-Present

  • Designed and executed a multi-platform marketing and communications strategy that generated 10,000+ digital impressions across social and web platforms, increased audience engagement, and directly contributed to securing an additional year of institutional funding.

  • Led strategic storytelling and media positioning for citywide arts programming, amplifying initiatives that engaged 1,000+ youth participants and contributed to programming that reached over 20,000 students across the UK and Chicago.

  • Built and managed integrated communications infrastructure (press, email marketing, social campaigns, and partnership outreach), strengthening brand visibility, increasing program participation, and expanding cross-sector collaborations with schools, arts institutions, and community partners.Arts Council Collection & Southbank Center, London, United Kingdom

Public Poets Fellow - Youth Speaks, Oakland, California | October 2024- July 2025

  • Produced multi-platform storytelling (live, digital, social activation) informed by community insight and movement strategy.

  • Designed and facilitated workshops and performances centering culturally relevant storytelling, creative healing, and empowerment across Oakland, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, and South Dakota.

  • Directly engaged 1,000+ youth through workshops and public activations.

  • Translated grassroots narrative frameworks into large-scale public engagement and performances

Arts Across America Video Series Host - John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC (February 2021-July 2021)

Live show host for nationally streaming video series

  • Led conversations with grammy award winning musical artists, esteemed teaching artists, and notable performing artists while centering social and transformative justice.

  • Introduced, welcomed, and created a safe space where artists felt comfortable to be vulnerable and themselves

  • Researched the artists’ body of work and talked in depth about their missions as artists and cultural leaders

NOTABLE ARTISTIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Pretty Boy, Short Film (2022)

Produced, Directed and Starred in 30 minute short film. The film has been featured at the Hip-Hop Theater Fest in 2022 as well as the Various Artists Film Festival in 2022

RACE To the Finish, Full Length Play (2017-2021)

Wrote and directed this Full Length Play which has been produced by the Pegasus Theater(2017), the Kennedy Center(2019), the Hip-Hop Theater Festival(2020), and Tisch School of the Arts Main Stage(2021)

The Destroyers, Short Play(2019) 

This play adapted by Tanehisi Coates' Between the World and Me. that was featured in a short play festival featured at Tisch School of the Arts.        

BABA by Wyclef Jean(2019)

Featured Poet on the introduction of Grammy Award winner Wyclef Jean's 'Back to School Mixtape'.

CUPSI Grand Slam Champion(2018)

Grand slam champion with New York University's poetry slam team at the 2018 College Union Poetry Slam Invitational.

August Wilson Monologue Competition Finalist(2017)

Performed a monologue written by August Wilson at the August Wilson Theater on Broadway.

COMMUNITY SERVICE AND ACTIVIST LEADERSHIP

Playwrights Horizons Parents Day Protest Performance (2019)

Artistic Advocate for 43 Students Stolen in Ayotzinapa Mexico (2018)

Artistic Delegations with Afro-Latinx Communities in Colombia (2018)

Youth Exchange with Youth Vision in Marrakech Morocco (2016)

FASHION COLLABORATIONS AND CAMPAIGNS

MCM (Fashion Week 2021), Adidas Original (2020, influencer partnership), Woolrich (2019, appeared in British Vogue, National video campaign), Steve Madden (2019, Time Square Billboard and national video campaign), VFiles (2018, New York Fashion Week at Barclays Center)