I’m an interdisciplinary

artist

and scholar.

I teach in UCLA’s department of World Arts & Cultures/ Dance, where I am an Assistant Professor of Intersectionality, Practice-based Research and Media Making. My work is site-responsive, connecting human and more-than-human experience within Black-diasporic contexts and anti-colonial struggles to probe questions of relation and reciprocity.

Working in performance, installation, photography, and video, I’m inspired by shorelines and flood zones as material and conceptual frameworks where land, water, and histories of movement converge. These sites hold layered histories of colonization, forced migration, and ecological transformation that continue to shape how bodies - human, plant and animal - inhabit them. Crucially, my practice asks how we live with what has been lost, and I am interested in forms of repair that resist restoration to an original state. I seek to create conditions for attunement toward persistence, transformation, and emerging modes of coexistence.

In 2023, I founded the Liberated Planet Studio (LPS) in Vancouver, Canada, which provided free studio space and programming for artists and activists interested in ecological research. I continue the direction of this artist-research program in Los Angeles with local collaborators. I currently serve on Clockshop’s board of directors and the academic advisory board of the UCLA Prison Education Program.