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As a historian, I’ve made it my life’s goal to seek out hidden histories all around me. It’s my belief that history should go beyond the traditional bounds of academic scholarship and into the people’s hands. When you partner with me, you get a historian who is looking to tell “bottom-up” stories with special attention to the intersections affecting marginalized communities. Let’s talk!
Natalia Pérez-Gonzalez, an award-winning journalist, needed a video to describe her aspirations. “Bio Video: A Letter to My Twelve Year Old Self,” 2021.
Celebrating + spotlighting artists in Washington D.C. who've built their careers on the intersection of art and activism. “ARTivism,” 2021.
A short testimonial follows a teacher in the DC History Center’s Teach the District program as they turn classroom practice into community-centered lessons.
A documentary produced with Natalia Pérez-Gonzalez for the Pulitzer Center: “Beyond the Green Wave: Reproductive Rights in the Dominican Republic” [Trailer], 2022.
I worked for the Pulitzer Center to document their Washington Weekend event. The weekend is the culmination of the Pulitzer Center’s Campus Consortium Reporting Fellow program that sends students from partner universities around the world to cover underreported global issues.
In 2019, the Council of Independent Colleges launched an initiative to help independent colleges and universities — and their communities — reckon with the history and legacies of American slavery. The project involved research, teaching, collaborations between colleges, and many kinds of community engagement. In September 2024, project participants gathered at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The goal of the conference: to discuss what they learned and the consider the future of Independent Colleges and the Legacies of Slavery.
Pastor Henry Monroe Wright was the pastor of the Community Praise Church (Alexandria Seventh-day Adventist Church) for over 20 years. In this short video produced as part of a larger tribute, I delve into a quick history of Pastor Wright’s tenure.