Executive Leadership

Building projects, programs and organizations from the ground up

I am driven by a calling to build institutions that advance black liberation. Let me invigorate your growing nonprofit organization and help you develop a roadmap for strategic action and social impact.

Before moving to the Baltimore-Washington corridor in 2019, I was associate director of Emory University’s James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, where I was integral in leading the Institute's restructuring and growth following a protracted funding and leadership crisis. Currently, I am the inaugural managing director of the Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts at Johns Hopkins University, where I develop programs, lead strategic initiatives, cultivate extramural partnerships and conduct research to educate the public about the history of African American arts, letters and politics in the City of Baltimore. In these roles, I have directed teams and managed complex seven-figure grants and budgets.

I am on the Higher Education Advisory Board of The History Makers, an Editor of the urban studies journal City & Community, and a member of the American Alliance of Museums, the Association of African American Museums, and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.