Media

Recent Public Talks & Events (2024):

When We Are Seen: A Conversation with Denise Young, former Worldwide Chief of Human Resources, Apple on DEI and Belonging, Lincoln School, Providence RI (September 2024)

Civic Imagination: a salon-style workshop and discussion inspired by James Baldwin & bell hooks, (September 2024), Curiosity &. Co, Jamestown, RI.

Marvelous Weapons: Q&A with dir. Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Providence World Music African Film & Arts Festival (September 2024)

Voices From the Movement: Radical Theatre Workshop w/ Jericho Boston & Jihad Abdulmumit, Rites and Reason Theatre, Providence, RI (August 2024)

Art & the Freedom Struggle: Community Mixer and Discussion, AS220 Blackbox Theatre, Providence, RI (May 2024)

Commencement Forum: Art, Incarceration, and Creating Activation Spaces, John Hay Library, Providence, RI (May 2024)

Critical Curating: The Black Biennial, lecture at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (March 2024)

Afrosurrealism, Panel Chair, International Society for the Study of Surrealism, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (November 2023)

Select Recorded Talks

Art In Focus (2024)

A review of Renee Cox’s “Revolution/Revelation” for Newport Art Museum.

Curators in Conversation (2023):

On Curating for the Providence Biennial for Contemporary Art.

State of the Black Studies PhD (2022)

A report and discussion on the state of Africana Studies/Black Studies in higher education.