Education
~ 2019 ~
PhD Student | NYU, New York, NY
Department of Anthropology
Certificate in Culture & Media
~ 2017 ~
B.A. | Barnard College of Columbia University, New York, NY
Major: Africana Studies | Minor: Dance
~ 2012 ~
International Baccalaureate | Campus des Nations of Ecolint, Geneva, Switzerland
Grants, Honors & Awards
~ 2021 ~
Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant | Social Science Research Council-Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program
Scholarship for Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training | Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for People of Color and Postpartum Support International (PSI)
~ 2019 ~
Graduate Research Fellowship | National Science Foundation
~ 2018 ~
Associate Fellowship | Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT)
Seed Grant | The Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research (CAETR) at Columbia University
~ 2017 ~
Summa Cum Laude | Barnard College of Columbia University
Membership | Phi Beta Kappa
Bold Organization Award for V-Day 2017 | Barnard College of Columbia University
Bold Student Award | Barnard College of Columbia University
~ 2015 ~
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Publications
~ 2021 ~
“Visions of Black Futurity Amidst the Double Pandemic of COVID-19 and Police Brutality.” Somatosphere
Speaking
~ 2021 ~
Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge
Presented a paper titled “Visions of Black Futurity: The Politics of Self and Community Care at the Intersection of the Double Pandemic of COVID-19 and Police Brutality” on a panel addressing “Social Power and Mental Health” via Zoom
Medusa Graduate Student Union Conference, University of Toronto
Presented a paper titled “Visions of Black Futurity: The Politics of Self and Community Care at the Intersection of the Double Pandemic of COVID-19 and Police Brutality” on a panel addressing “Revolutionary Futurities” via Zoom
~ 2018 ~
Embodying Ancestry Presenter | CAETR Seed Grantee Presentation
Funded with a seed grant from CAETR, Embodying Ancestry was an ethnographic portrait series empowering women of color ages twenty to thirty in New York with methods in oral history, archival work, and embodied practice to explore their own ancestry
~ 2017 ~
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Regional Conference, Brooklyn College
Presented preliminary ethnographic research from field site in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Teaching
~ 2021 ~
Project LETS (Lets Erase the Stigma)
Taught a portion of a teach-in entitled “Disabled and mad histories of pathologization and how we fought back” to a live audience of 55 people
Prepared and presented a lesson entitled “The History of Hysteria: Unpacking Sanist Legacies of Sexism & Racism” via Zoom”
~ 2018 ~
Teaching Assistant | Barnard Africana Studies Department
Assisted in administering course managing archival materials, learning the Scalar platform, and organizing digital humanities sessions
Managed the digital humanities pedagogy by maintaining the class blog & readings, commenting on student posts, reviewing student work, and working with students on crafting their research projects
Created landing page for Digital Shange project & student book, co-wrote an introduction with the professor, and edited final projects
2015 – 2017
Public Speaking Tutor & Head Fellow | Barnard College Writing & Speaking Center
Developed curriculum on embodied speaking practice and overcoming speaking anxiety
Held one-on-one sessions which enhanced students’ abilities to deliver class presentations and boost confidence during interviews
Facilitated specialized professional development public speaking workshops for student and faculty
Led recruitment strategies to increase cohort diversity for the class of 2017 Speaking Fellow cohort
Training
~ 2021 ~
Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Components of Care | Postpartum Support International
Legal and Ethical Dilemmas in Perinatal Mental Health | Maternal Mental Health NOW
Birth & Disability | Birth Advocacy Doula Trainings
~ 2020 ~
Peer Support Specialist | New York Academy of Peer Services
~ 2019 ~
Doula Mentorship, Birdsong Brooklyn
~ 2018 ~
Birth & Postpartum Doula | Carriage House Birth, Brooklyn, NY
Languages
Native: English
Advanced: Spanish, French
