PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Motimatic - Writer | February 2024 – July 2024

Campbell Ewald –  Jr. Copy Writer | April 2023 – June 2023

Google Brand Studio –  Writer | June 2022 – December 2022

Duncan Channon – Jr. Copy Writer | August 2021 – January 2022

Siegel+Gale– Naming Intern | June 2021 – August 2021

MuleSoft – Executive Briefing Coordinator | April 2021 – June 2021

Foglifter – Emerging Writer Fellow | September 2020 – June 2021

TRIPTK– Emerging Talent | April 2020 – September 2020

Salesforce – Executive Briefing Coordinator | September 2019 - November 2019

Chabot Space and Science Center - Public Programs Intern | May 2019 - July 2019

Publications

•      “Ekphrastic after 'Sugar Shack” by Ernie Barnes, or &... I hope you like me’ cause i’m nervous” and “[No title] w/ a line from Gotye & Sabrina Carpenter” (The Shade Journal, Summer 2021)

•      “After the election, America explodes/into cheers” (Foglifter, Spring 2021)

•      “Black Extremists have a conversation with COINTELPRO” 
(Youth Speaks Unified Anthology, November 2020)

•      “Marriage in Copper” (The Ana, issue three, August 2020)

•      “Case Study in Disrespecting Gender” (Auburn Avenue, the gender issue, April 2020)

•      “Discography” (Auburn Avenue, the gender issue, April 2020)

•      “Resources” (Mary: A journal of new writing, March 2019)

•      “Love finds me” (The Cerurove, Issue 3, September 2018)

•      “Vocabulary for African American Studies” (The Cerurove, Issue 3, September 2018)

Awards

•      “Arts Research Center (ARC) Fellow. UC Berkeley. 2021

•      “Best of the Net” nominee. Death Rattle Writers Festival. 2021

•      “Best New Poets” nominee. Foglifter. 2021.

•      “Penrose Poetry Prize” Shortlist. Death Rattle Writers Festival. 2021.

•      Foglifter Youth Fellow. Foglifter. 2020.

•      “Bakanal de Afrique” fellowship. Afro Urban Society. 2020.

•      “Show us your spines” residency. RADAR productions. 2020.

•      “Best Writing as a Team” Accolade. ACUI. 2018.

•      Pride award. Cal Alumni Association UC Berkeley. 2018.

•      Leadership award. Cal Alumni Association UC Berkeley. 2017.

•      Fiat Lux Scholarship. UC Berkeley. 2014. 

Features

•      KALW 91.7FM “Intro to Anatomy” featured on air. March 2022.

•      Strut “Black Love” show. February 2022.

•      Happy endings “Bad Beginning” show. February 2022.

•      Flash Readings Series. ARC (Arts Research Center UC Berkeley). April 2021.

•      The Oakland Slam. February 2021.

•      “Bakanal de Afrique” festival. Afro Urban Society. November 2020.

•      Santa Clara review. November 2020. 

•      Oakland Slam “Black Artists Showcase”. July 2020.

•      Queer Bound LGBTQ+ Open Mic. June 2020.

•      The Racket reading series. May 2020.

•      Stanford open mic. March 2020.

•      The Root Slam. February 2020.

•      The Oakland Slam. February 2020.

•      Queer Mountain. February 2020.

•      Youth Speaks “Under 21 Open Mic”. January 2020.

•      Santa Cruz Word Church. January 2020.

•      Starry Plough Pub. September 2019.

•      UC Berkeley “Cal SLAM”. February 2019. 

•      “Night of Ideas”. San Francisco Public Library & French Embassy. February 2019.

•      Voz Sin Tinta. December 2018.

•      Literary Speakeasy. November 2018.

•      CUPSI, College Union Poetry Slam Invitational, final stage. ACUI. April 2018.