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 Re:Generation public art & history grantmaking initiative by Monument Lab and the Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project.
Co-founder of William & Mary's Lemon Project (2009-), a community-engaged historical research and public humanities initiative on race.
Digital Media
Podcast pilot consultant and NPR Season 1 voice actor portraying the Honorable George Washington Fields (1854 - 1932).
Featured guest on NPR show & podcast's 'Invisible Founders' episode (2018) discussing connection to ancestral slavery site and enslaver descendants.
Co-narrator/subject of 2020 Capital Emmy Award-winning short film on Encyclopedia Virginia's partnership with Google Earth Outreach.
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 Sites & 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/U.S. National Park Service affiliated site.
2021 Virginia Humanities Folklife Apprenticeship with Horace and Hannah Scruggs and Niya Bates, conserving 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.
Photographer, audio co-producer, and curator 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) streetscape public art & history exhibition contextualizing place and identity through contemporary Black lit.