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Awards, Grants, & Fellowships

2025 Winner, Pittsburgh Children’s Museum Winter Festival GLOW Art Competition | Pittsburgh, PA

2024-2025 The Future Is Black Creative Fellowship| Pittsburgh, PA

2023-2024 YTT 200 Flight 6 Cohort | Yoga Roots On Location, Boca Raton FL

2023-2024 Artist Talk Mental Health Fellowship| Pittsburgh, PA

2014 Summer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA), Burlesque and Gender…| London UK

2013 Field Studies Undergraduate Research Award, Gendered Performance | New York City, NY

Exhibitions

2025    

Group exhibition, Envisioning A Just Pittsburgh at August Wilson African American Cultural Center | Pittsburgh, PA

2024    

Two-person exhibition, Illuminating the Vaccine for Racism at the Frick Fine Arts Library | Pittsburgh, PA

Group exhibition, Honest Work 3 at Industrious | Pittsburgh, PA

Group exhibition, Honest Work 4 at PNC Park | Pittsburgh, PA

Group exhibition, Oat Milk & Hxney at Brew House Arts | Pittsburgh, PA

Research & Work Abroad

2016                 Havana, Cuba | Completed the University of Pittsburgh’s Race and Religion Africana Studies program

2015                 San Jose, Costa Rica | Participated in outreach and educational programs to assist human rights activist efforts to help stabilize, defend, and represent disenfranchised sex workers

2013                 Salamanca, Spain |Study Abroad Coursework: Intensive Spanish, Oral and Written Skills, Spanish Culture, History of Spanish Art, Spanish History

Professional Experience

May 2023 – Present Arts Consultant + Project Manager, Rachel Equity Insights

Oct 2023 - Feb 2024 Project Managed the inaugural Envisioning A Just Pittsburgh art competition with the Carnegie Museum Natural History, the University of Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh

Oct 2021 – Nov 2022 Production Assistant, The Kreate Group

Jul 2021 – Sep 2022 Director of Equity + Outreach, ASCEND Climbing Gym

Jul 2021 – Sep 2022 Youth Climbing Coach, ASCEND Climbing Gym

Dec 2018 – Dec 2021 Board Secretary; Communications Chair, Hill Dance Academy Theatre

Nov 2020 – May 2021 Communications Manager, University of Pittsburgh

Jun 2016 – Nov 2020 Administrative Assistant, University of Pittsburgh

Jan 2016 – May 2016 Editorial Intern, Sampsonia Way Magazine

Jan 2014 – May 2016 Co-host Pitt Morning Show, WPTS Radio

Jul 2014 – May 2016 Cheer & Dance Instructor, Elite Cheer INC.

Apr 2012 – May 2016 Co-founder, Editor, Forbes & Fifth Magazine