My work lives at the crossroads of black studies, film theory, and metaphysics. In exploring questions and conditions of black (w)holeness I work to mind the gaps of being and knowing: tracing histories of black diasporic imagining through past + present to understand black sonic + visual lifeworlds. These worlds - both in their materiality and ontology - invite me to consider liquidity, affective ecologies, and economies of listening to attend to the unique ways black folks feel through the world.
Prior to joining the Stanford Art & Art History Department, I served as a junior staffer and Chief of Staff at multiple levels of state and local government in Massachusetts including the Massachusetts House of Representatives and The Black and Latino Legislative Caucus (MBLLC) where I worked on criminal justice reform, police reform, health and vaccine equity, etc. This background informs and anchors my politic, situating my theoretical explorations of blackness in a material struggle for liberation and radical consciousness.