RECENT COURSES

BROWN UNIVERSITY | adjunct lecturer in public humanities

Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship in the Commons | Public Humanities & Cultural Heritage (MA)

Barnard College | Adjunct ASSISTANT Professor

Freestyle and Displacement in Contemporary Art Practices | Africana Studies & Art History (BA)

Hartford Art School | Adjunct ASSISTANT Professor

METHODOLOGIES AND Place-Based Pedagogy, Practice & Participation | Nomad Interdisciplinary MFA

EDUCATOR

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Guest Speaker, Art Forum, Montclair State University Department of Art & Design, Montclair, NJ

2023

Visiting Critic, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

Guest Lecturer, Bennington College Museum Fellows Term, Bennington College, New York, NY

Guest Lecturer, Professional Practice, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, D.C.

2022

Visiting Critic, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Methodologies and Art & Place Reconsidered: Place-based Pedagogy, Practice & Participation, Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT

Guest Critic, Assembly Youth Fellows, Recess Art, Brooklyn NY

Guest Lecturer, Miss Porter’s, Farmington, CT

2021

Adjunct Lecturer, Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship in the Commons, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities, Brown University, Providence, RI

Guest Lecturer, Pre-College Program (with Professor Bradley McCallum), The School of The New York Times X Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York, NY

Guest Lecturer, Early College Program (with Professor Dr. Bernida Webb-Binder), The Atlanta University Center, Art History and Curatorial Studies Collective, Atlanta, GA

Curriculum Designer, BOMB Magazine Oral History Project, New Orleans, LA and Chicago, IL

Curriculum Designer, Grounding Your Story, Creative Capital and Arizona State University, New York, NY and Phoenix, AZ

Guest Lecturer, The Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Visiting Artist, 2021 Visiting Artist, Scholar & Designer Series: World Building, Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Denver, CO

Guest Lecturer, Museum Management (with Professor Helen Warwick), New York University, New York, NY

Presenter, Atlanta University Center Consortium Virtual Career Fair, Atlanta, GA

Visiting Lecturer, Writing the Intersections of Bodies & Objects, Black Embodiments Studio, Seattle, WA

Curriculum Designer, Black Art: In the Absence of Light, HBO, Los Angeles, CA

2020

Panelist, Student/Futures, Carnegie Mellon University School of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Guest Lecturer, Yale School of Art: Graphic Design Guest Lecture Series (with Professors Forest Young & Sheila de Bretteville), Yale University, New Haven, CT

Guest Lecturer, Yale School of Art (with Professor Pamela Hovland), Yale University, New Haven, CT                       

Guest Lecturer, Yale Department of the History of Art (with Professor Pamela Lee), Yale University, New Haven, CT

Panelist, A Conversation with the Critics: Melissa Smith, Laura Van Straaten, and Nico Wheadon, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Panelist, Myth of the Artist/Myth of the Entrepreneur, Arts & Entrepreneurship Day, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Presenter, Public Humanities Now: New Voices, New Directions | Institution-Building with Art & Artists at the Core, Brown University Public Humanities Center, Providence, RI

2019

Guest Lecturer, Modern & Contemporary Forum: Public Programs as Hybrid Practice with Terence Washington, Yale Department of the History of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Guest Lecturer, NXTHVN Case Study with Jason Price and Jonathan Brand, Yale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Co-Keynote Speaker with Titus Kaphar, NXTHVN: Design as an Ethical Discipline, The Design of Business: The Business of Design Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Guest Lecturer, Museum Management  (with Professor Helen Warwick), New York University, New York, NY

Guest Lecturer, Women in Leadership, The Athena Center for Leadership Studies, Barnard College, New York, NY

PRE-2018

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Freestyle & Displacement in Contemporary Art Practices, Barnard College, New York, NY

Panelist, The Pathways Panel | Fuse: A Nexus for Interdisciplinary and Individualized Study, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Participant, Harlem-Black Paris, Barnard Center for Research on Women Global Symposium, Paris, France

Guest Lecturer, Decolonizing Public Humanities: Intersectional Approaches to Curatorial Work, Cultural Production, and Community Organizing, Brown University, Providence, RI

Guest Lecturer, Center for Curatorial Leadership, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Panelist, Art Futures NYC: Careers in the Arts Fair | Engaging Communities Through Creative Practices, The New School, New York, NY

Guest Speaker, No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab, New York, NY

Lecturer, Commodity Fetishism and the Price of Representation, 21st Annual James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Guest Speaker, 3rd Annual One-on-One, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Guest Speaker, Exhibiting: A Roundtable Discussion with Gallerists, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, New York, NY

Video Production TA, Modern Culture & Media Department, Brown University, Providence, RI