artist statement
Creating is a visual journal—a place to navigate + express, offering solace during moments of solitude or overwhelm. I’m experimenting with materials like rice paper + branches, sewing into wood, + cement with fire to create new textures. This journey as a multi-media artist intersects with social justice advocacy, where art becomes an essential role to release + process.
In my social work career, I concentrate on effecting change at the individual level. I use documentary filmmaking as a spark to ignite action on a wider scale by reaching diverse audiences. Recently, I'm shifting towards policy work as a tool for tangible change.
I believe in healing trauma + dismantling an oppressive, capitalist system.
documentaries
Out in the Night asks the question who has the right to defend themselves? The film sheds light on the New Jersey 4 and how the media's prejudicial representation of these young women perpetuated harmful stereotypes and biases, leading to their wrongful incarcerations.
After Sherman is a personal story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history. Exploring coastal South Carolina as a site of pride and racial trauma through Gullah
cultural retention and land preservation.
documentaries in production
All Ghosts are Children Poisoned by Kerosene Lamps
All Ghosts are Children Poisoned by Kerosene Lamps is an experimental short film that explores movement navigating from one trauma only to experience another trauma.
What's in a Name?
What’s in a Name? is a short documentary exploring the name of my hometown, C*** R*****, a suburb near Minneapolis characterized by a notable reluctance to accept the origins of its name.
Coerced: How the banks failed domestic violence survivors
Coerced tells the story of the economic abuse domestic violence survivors face daily and the plight to pass NYS’s first coerced debt bill.
writings
Reinvesting in Economic Justice, Equity and Solidarity for Survivors in NYC
Opinion: 50 Years Later, Economic Abuse Survivors Are Still Living Like It’s 1974
Opinion: 50 Years Later, Economic Abuse Survivors Are Still Living Like It’s 1974
Opinion: 50 Years Later, Economic Abuse Survivors Are Still Living Like It’s 1974
Opinion: 50 Years Later, Economic Abuse Survivors Are Still Living Like It’s 1974
Opinion: 50 Years Later, Economic Abuse Survivors Are Still Living Like It’s 1974