Research that lives on screen

I turn Black life into stories the archive can’t throw away.
I build story worlds where ethnography, archives, and oral history become documentary, narrative film, and scripts—so Black life shows up as memory, method, and future.
These are the story worlds where my research lives—short films, documentaries, and scripts that move from the archive to the screen.​

How I build story worlds

Listen

​Ethnography + interviews that treat everyday people as knowledge-makers.

Gather

​Archival research + historical imagery + community-held records.

Build

Films, exhibits, and scripts—built to travel.

Beyond the Schoolyard

A Rosenwald-era school becomes a symbol—and a battleground—in the fight to preserve Black educational memory. ​
  • Format: Documentary
  • Built with: Interviews + historic imagery + firsthand accounts
  • Current focus: Production + fundraising to complete the film and support preservation needs tied to the school building
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Quieted (short script)

A Black doctoral student on the edge of burnout is haunted by the academy’s ghosts while racing to defend her work—and her right to belong. ​
  • Format: Short narrative script
  • Role: Writer
  • Status: Script completed; open for development conversations
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Fowl Play (2024)

A relationship comedy where love, attention, basketball, and chicken wings collide.​
  • Format: Narrative short
  • Role: Writer/Director 
  • Availability: Trailer public; full short available privately on request
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DEVOTION (Exhibition)

Picture
Image credit: Leta Rawls (Leta Kathryn Photography, LLC.), Legacy of love (2023)
An exhibition that makes the everyday “receipts” of Black love public—letters, screenshots, voicemails, and artifacts of care—staged across seven conceptual stages from Ask to After. 

Selected Publications & Writing

Peer-reviewed work and public writing that inform these story worlds.
Peer-reviewed articles
  • Reclaiming space and memory: Black cowboys and the right to the city — Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology (2024). Wiley Online Library
  • Cowboy Cool: A Professional Black Cowboy’s Perspective — Transforming Anthropology (2022). AnthroSource
Books / Exhibition Catalogues
  • Cowboy — Rizzoli Electa (Publish date: Oct 10, 2023). Contributing essay on the history of the Black rodeo cowboy and how the figure performs/functions today. rizzoliusa.com
Public scholarship Selected exhibition (institutional page)

Partner with me

​I collaborate with museums, cultural organizations, and community partners to develop story-driven public work—from companion films to oral history initiatives and exhibition-aligned programming.
  • Companion film + interpretive media for exhibitions (shorts, interview films, installation video)
  • Oral history collection design (ethics, consent language, interview strategy, training)
  • Research + story architecture for heritage projects (archives-to-screen development)