SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

[Facilitator] "Dunham as Marronage" Black History Future Folk Symposium Old Town School of Folk Music

Contributing Artist, Echo Making: Low End Theorem , with André M. Zachery and Renegade Performance Group Barnard Movement Lab

Contributor, Eyes On The Prize III: We Who Believe In Freedom Cannot Rest 1977-2015 HBO Documentary Films

Co-Creator, Librettist, Producing Director, Against Gravity: Flying Afrikans + Other Urban Legends  651 Arts

Contributing Artist, Echo Making (multimedia installation), with André M Zachery York College

[Facilitator] Erol Josué - Pelerinaj 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) 

[Panelist] No Bois Man No Fraid Old Town School of Folk Music

“Shango Electric: Sacred Speech-acts in Black Publics” Black Portraitures IV Harvard University

[Facilitator] “Performing Black Masculinities: Where, How and for Whom?” Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts

[Co-Convener] “Drafting Memory: Multimedia Journalism & Haiti’s Digital Archive” Caribbean Studies Association Port-au-Prince, Haiti

“Rele Ountogi” Caribbean Studies Association Port-au-Prince, Haiti

[Panelist] “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

[Facilitator] "History Tellers: Migration and Community" Beyond Coasts: Haiti in the Mid-West Symposium Northwestern University

[Convener] “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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MULTIMEDIA

Co-Producer, Carceral Fictions & Abolitionist Realities

Team Member, Digital Ancestral Altars

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 Steward

#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

Lagos International Poetry Festival Craft & Development Lab

3rd Space, Roots.Wounds.Words

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

Collaborative Narratives, Oral History Summer School

Digital Storytelling, Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective

New Waves!, The Dance and Performance Institute, Trinidad and Tobago

Wild Seed Poetry Retreat, Center for Black Literature, Medgar Evers College

Global Blackness Summer School, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study

DEAR Fellowship, Caribbean Cultural Center - African Diaspora Institute

Adaptation, Voices of Our Nation Foundation Winter Intensive

Poetry/ Memoir, Voices of Our Nation Foundation 

Liberatory Memory Workshop, Chicago Torture Justice Center 

City Bureau Reporting Fellowship

Black Metropolis Research Consortium Fellowship

Thread: Storytelling in Modern Media, Yale University

Vocalo Storytellers Workshop, Chicago Public Media 

Families for Freedom Speakers Bureau

City Lore/ Transom Documentary Institute

Kathryn Davis Peace Fellowship (Portuguese), Middlebury College

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ARTIST GRANTS & RESIDENCIES

Café Royal Cultural Foundation Performance Grant 

Brooklyn Arts Council Local Arts Support Grant

651ARTS Production Residency

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

Fresh Eyes, The Nonfiction Hotlist

2nd Round, Creative Capital

Finalist, PERIPLUS

SemiFinalist, PRX-Google Podcast Accelerator