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I work in partnership with individuals, organizations, and communities to recover and reimagine the history of place, objects, and memory. My specialized practice combines archival research, oral history, and visual documentation to produce historical narratives – from traditional scholarship to creative storytelling. I acknowledge that the stories we tell (or forget), the things we keep (or lose), and the places we preserve (or erase) are never neutral. My work always moves at the speed of trust with stakeholders. Together, we work to untangle fact from fiction, decolonize narratives, reclaim cultural heritage, and curate content to educate the public about the significance of the past. Document by document, layer by layer, story by story, the past is revealed in the present.

 

With a decade of experience in arts and heritage management, I am well-versed in curatorial practices, strategic planning, high-level project management, and have mastered the skills needed to run a smooth creative production process. The majority of my work is centered on cultural preservation and the intersection of architecture, design, and memory.​​

MS Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania, 2020

BA Studio Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016

// Employers, Partners & Clients

University of Pennsylvania

Stanford University

National Trust for Historic Preservation

​Tuskegee University School of Architecture

The New York Times

The Tenement Museum

Dupont Underground

American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage 

Partners for Sacred Places

Hidden City Philadelphia

Philadelphia Water Department

​Federation of Southern Cooperatives Rural Training and Research Center​​

// Skills

Historic Preservation

Archival Research

Academic Writing

Curatorial Practices

Adobe Suite

Project Management

Public Speaking

Grant Writing

Microsoft Office

​Digital Photography

// Research Interests

Visual Studies

Folklore

19th Century American History

20th Century American History

Southern Studies

Cultural Landscape Studies

Architectural History

Material Culture

Vernacular Culture

Aethetics

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