This page reflects selected work and evolves over time.
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Editorial & Cultural Leadership
Work that involved shaping vision, strategy, and infrastructure for cultural organizations, with a focus on authorship, ethics, and long-term sustainability.
The Sentences That Create Us
Editor — PEN America, Haymarket Books (2022)
An anthology featuring original writing by more than 50 justice-involved writers, developed through PEN America. The book explores writing as a site of authorship, dignity, and public voice inside carceral systems. Tens of thousands of copies were distributed free of charge to incarcerated readers across the United States.
Selected Praise
“There are millions of stories locked behind bars...
This astonishing book has the power to set those stories free.”
—Michelle Alexander
”This book, unlike any other I’ve read, takes seriously
the beating hearts and curious minds behind the bars
of a nation obsessed with punishing the most vulnerable.”
—Kiese Laymon
”An homage to the power of writing to deliver each of us from
our individual confines into the soaring infinity of our imaginations.”
—Jennifer Egan
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Director, Prison and Justice Writing
PEN America | 2018–2023
Led the reimagining, rebranding and expansion of PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing program. Over five years, grew the program from a small, grassroots initiative with a $50K annual budget into a nationally recognized department supported by roughly $3 million in new funding.
Built and oversaw a suite of programs including a fellowship, a through-the-walls mentoring program, an annual writing contest, public events, partnerships, and a monthly podcast and publication series. The work centered the leadership, labor, and voices of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated writers.
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Imagining Freedom Presidential Initiative
Consultant, The Mellon Foundation | 2023–2025
Researched, designed, and facilitated a national working convening for approximately 40 Imagining Freedom grantees. The convening focused on the ethics and realities of paying incarcerated writers, creating space to share best practices, surface challenges, and identify gaps across the field.
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Creative & Cultural Production
Production work translating artistic vision into realized, public-facing projects.
Phoenix Rising: Maya Azucena Live at Little Church
Producer | 2025
A 50 minute concert film capturing award-winning vocalist Maya Azucena in an intimate performance at Little Church Creative Studio in Yonkers. Shot with a six-camera setup, full board mix, and original production design, the project documents Azucena at her most raw, expressive, and soul-charged.
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Quilted Steel: A Choreopoem by Mahogany L. Browne
Producer — Lincoln Center | 2022
Produced Mahogany L. Browne’s original choreopoem as a multidisciplinary project spanning video, live performance, and an impact campaign in collaboration with Essie Justice Group. The work brought the voices of system-involved Black women to the screen and stage at Lincoln Center.
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Artist-in-Residence Program
Little Church Creative Studio | 2025
Designed and stewarded an artist-in-residence program within a working production studio. The program supports multidisciplinary artists with access to space, production resources, and public engagement, while leaving room for experimentation and artist-led process.
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Authored & Originated Projects
Independently developed work exploring form through writing, image, and performance.
Let It Die Hungry
(The Operating System, 2017)
A multidisciplinary poetry collection exploring embodiment, desire, conflict, and survival. Alongside poems and drawings, the book includes writing prompts originally developed in a women’s prison, inviting readers into the messy, expansive gray areas of lived experience.
Selected praise:
“Ardor-medicine against oblivion.” — Aracelis Girmay
“A wildly exciting debut book.” — Bianca Stone
“Urgent, compassionate, and deeply human.” — David Groff
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Pep Talks For Broke(n) People
Comic Zine x Participatory Installation (2020)
A self-produced comics poetry zine built from short visual narratives and encouraging exchanges between friends, lovers, and inner voices. The project was also staged as an interactive exhibition, including participatory installations like a large-scale coloring wall that invited both kids and adults to make alongside one another.
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Education & Curriculum Work
Curriculum and learning design translating complex ideas into accessible experiences.
Writer-in-Residence
Bronx Academy of Letters | 2014–2017
Redesigned a long-running creative writing program to reach an entire school community. Created tiered electives for student writers alongside full-school guest assemblies featuring writers of color, including Jason Reynolds. Introduced a cohesive design approach that helped student publications become widely read and valued by their peers.
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Impact Curriculum Design
& Creative Educational Programming
HBO · Showtime · PBS · Independent
Designed curriculum and educational materials across film, writing, and cultural programming contexts. This work includes ongoing film-based curricula developed as a core team member of Impact Media Partners, as well as original curricula created for classrooms, residencies, and community-based learning environments.
For joy → Delight