I am a filmmaker with a decade of experience, oral historian, and an urban planning scholar based in Philadelphia. For the past three years, I have served as lead documentarian for the Black Ecologies Lab at Rutgers University, producing films, oral history archives, and pedagogical media across field schools in Virginia, Louisiana, New Jersey, and North Carolina.

My work began in Black studies — a framework built from the specific history of the Black Atlantic that illuminates something larger: how people across time and place survive, remember, and co-create within the margins of power. That has taken me into work alongside Indigenous land stewards, migrant, and refugee communities, Asian diasporic communities, and many more whose relationship to land and memory has been shaped by displacement, extraction, or erasure. Blackness, in this work, is not a closed category — it is a way of seeing that opens onto a much larger human story.