• Chief Strategy Officer at BLCK VC

    March 2024 — Present, Los Angeles, CA

  • Editorial Director, "Going to Ground" Exhibition Catalogue

    March 2024 — Present, Los Angeles, CA

    An exhibition text for the public arts project Going to Ground conceptualized by Virginia-based artist, LaRissa Rogers.

    Sponsored by The Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, Massachusetts.

  • Program Manager, Research & Development at HashiCorp

    September 2022 — March 2024, San Francisco, CA

  • Chief of Staff, Engineering Product & Design at Vercel

    October 2021 — July 2022, San Francisco, CA

  • Senior Business Manager, Product & Product Design at GitHub

    June 2019 — October 2021, San Francisco, CA

  • Operations Associate at SAP.iO of SAP America, Inc.

    August 2017 — February 2019, San Francisco, CA

  • Director of Marketing & Curator at Ciel Creative Space (Consultant)

    August 2019 — January 2020, Berkeley, CA

  • Head of Marketing & Conceptual Designer for Building Blocks (Film)

    February 2018 — October 2020, Oakland, CA

Writing & Curatorial

 
  • Organized by Her Place is In, SKIN was a photographic exhibition centered around building community, celebrating diversity, redefining beauty, and empowering femininity.

  • This essay discusses the exhibition Double Conscience (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, March 20th – August 16th 2015) which features the film m.A.A.d City (2015) by filmmaker Kahlil Joseph. In its current state, the essay considers the moment Joseph (and jointly rapper, Kendrick Lamar) are working in - historically, politically, visually, and artistically. Contextualizing the film amidst other works by LA based filmmakers such as Charles Burnett and Ulysses Jenkins, the essay aims to grapple with the black cinematic aesthetic coined by Manthia Diawara to show the many stakes of Joseph's filmmaking today. That is, Joseph’s work in m.A.A.d City captures a misé en scene that extends beyond the obvious dualism present in Double Conscience, providing an introspective, nuanced lens for which to examine South Central, Los Angeles as a cultural space and place of multiplicity. I was granted private access to the film by MOCA LA and have used it as a primary source in writing this paper.

  • I Just Want The Paper exceeds the expectations attributed to works on paper, infusing the medium and the visual read of the works with a process-oriented understanding that can shape the practice of and discourses surrounding works on paper as well as the real-world ambiguities imbued within the medium.