Memorialization
International Design Competition juror and Design-Build Committee member for William & Mary "Hearth" memorial (completed in 2022) honoring individuals enslaved by oldest higher education institution in the U.S. South.
National juror for Monument Lab's Re:Generation public art & history grantmaking initiative, funded by the Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project.
Co-founder of William & Mary's Lemon Project (2009-), a public humanities, participatory action research initiative on the legacies of slavery.
Digital Media
Podcast pilot consultant and NPR Season 1 voice actor portraying The Hon. George Washington Fields (1854 - 1932).
Featured guest on 'Invisible Founders' NPR episode (2018) discussing connection to ancestral place of enslavement and enslaver descendants.
Co-narrator/subject of 2020 Capital Emmy Award-winning short film on Encyclopedia Virginia's partnership with Google Earth Outreach.
Lead historical consultant for PBS/VPM's 2021 Capital Emmy Award-winning 'School Interrupted' episode (S2E4).
Creative consultant for Virginia Tourism Corporation’s #1 History Apple podcast Following Harriet (2019).
Co-creator/-curator of Virginia History Trails App (2017-2018) featuring 400+ heritage sites and museums, historical figures, and stories.
Heritage Places & Exhibitions
Contributing writer for Engaging Descendant Communities (2018) national best practices rubric, published by Montpelier and the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Moton Museum COO responsible for 2013 opening of $6 million permanent exhibition at Virginia's Brown v. Board National Historic Landmark.
2021 Virginia Humanities Folklife Apprenticeship with Horace and Hannah Scruggs and Niya Bates, chronicling Central Piedmont's Black watermen & riverways heritage.
Advisor for Determined (2019), the Virginia Museum of History & Culture’s major exhibition examining 400-year legacy of Virginia’s first Africans.
Historical interpretation & education advisor (2015-2021) and co-founder of Slavery Descendants Committee (2020) at Virginia's Executive Mansion.
Curator, chief photographer, and audio co-producer of Afro-Virginia: People, Place & Power (2019) traveling exhibition on Black self-determination in historic preservation.
Co-curator, with UVA Art chair Dr. Carmenita Higginbotham and Arts Admin prof. Maggie Guggenheimer, of #UnseenCville (2018) public art & history streetscape exhibition contextualizing place and identity through contemporary Black lit.