Research that lives on screen

I turn Black life into stories the archive can’t throw away.

​This work begins in community, moves through research, and becomes film, exhibitions, and public record.

I translate ethnography, archives, and oral history into film, exhibitions, and scripts. Black life appears not only as a story, but as a method, memory, and record. 
These works move from fieldwork to archive to screen.​

How I build story worlds

Each project follows the same structure.

Listen

Ethnographic interviews that treat everyday people as knowledge-holders.

Gather

Archival research, historical imagery, and community-held records.

Build

Films, exhibitions, and scripts that translate research into public narrative.

Current Work

​These projects emerge from ongoing research.

Beyond the Schoolyard

A Rosenwald-era school becomes a site of struggle over Black educational memory.
  • Format: Documentary
  • Built with: Interviews, archival imagery, and firsthand accounts
  • Current focus: Production and preservation planning
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Quieted (short script)

A Black doctoral student approaches burnout while confronting the academy’s ghosts and the question of belonging.
  • Format: Short narrative script
  • Role: Writer
  • Status: Completed; open for development​

Fowl Play (2024)

A relationship comedy where love, attention, basketball, and chicken wings intersect.
  • Format: Narrative short
  • Role: Writer / Director
  • Availability: Watch Fowl Play

DEVOTION (Exhibition)

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Image credit: Leta Rawls (Leta Kathryn Photography, LLC.), Legacy of love (2023)
An exhibition that treats the everyday records of Black love—letters, screenshots, voicemails, artifacts—as archive.

​The work unfolds across seven stages from Ask to After.
  • Format: Exhibition / participatory archive
  • Role: Curator
  • Recognition: apexart NYC 2026–27 Open Call Winner
  • Project Page → DEVOTION​

Selected Publications & Writing

Peer-reviewed scholarship and public writing that ground this work.
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

This work often develops through collaboration with:
​• community organizations
• cultural institutions and museums
• educators and archives
• filmmakers and storytellers
• preservation groups and local historians
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​Projects may include:
​• oral history collection and documentation
• exhibition and screening programs
• research partnerships
• interpretive media for cultural memory projects