My interests span experiential, place-based education; Black and Indigenous ecologies, placekeeping, and cultural rights; Long Civil Rights in rural South Central Virginia; and social movement resourcing and praxis.
(Re)Interpretation & Education
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.
2021 Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship with Horace and Hannah Scruggs and Niya Bates, chronicling Central Piedmont riverways and Black boatmen heritage.
Historical interpretation & education advisor (2015-2021) and co-founder of Slavery Descendants Committee (2020) at Virginia's Executive Mansion.
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.
Co-founder of William & Mary's Lemon Project (2009), a public humanities, participatory action research initiative on the legacies of slavery.
Digital Storytelling
Podcast pilot consultant and NPR Season 1 voice actor portraying The Hon. George Washington Fields (b. 1854 - d. 1932).
Lead historical consultant for PBS/VPM's 2021 Capital Emmy Award-winning 'School Interrupted' episode (S2E4).
Co-narrator/subject of 2020 Capital Emmy Award-winning short film on Encyclopedia Virginia's partnership with Google Earth Outreach.
Creative consultant for Virginia Tourism Corporation’s #1 History Apple podcast Following Harriet (2019).
Featured guest on 'Invisible Founders' NPR episode (2018) discussing connection to ancestral place of enslavement and enslaver descendants.
Co-creator/-curator of Virginia History Trails App (2017-2018) featuring 400+ heritage sites and museums, historical figures, and stories.
Resourcing
National advisory board member (2024- ) for creative place-making/-keeping resourcing initiative for historic Black settlement descendant communities in the U.S. and Canada, with major support from The Mellon Foundation.
Team lead (2023-2025) and co-creator of one of Virginia's first major, multimillion-dollar philanthropic programs devoted to social change movement building.
Strategic initiatives and partnerships director (2016-2022) for state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
National juror (2021) for Monument Lab's inaugural Re:Generation public art & history grantmaking initiative, funded by The Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project.
Co-Curation
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.
Advisor for Determined (2019), the Virginia Museum of History & Culture’s major exhibition examining 400-year legacy of Virginia’s first Africans.