b. Connecticut, USA

r. Brooklyn, New York, USA

Current Roles

Expanding the Walls Coordinator, Studio Museum in Harlem

Programs Coordinator, Aberdeen Community Garden

Director of Public Engagement, The Photographer’s Green Book (PGB)

Alliance Member, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture

Select Previous Roles

Research Assistant, Archives and Publication, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture

Education Manager, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image

Education

Museum Education Practicum, Studio Museum Institute, New York

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine

BFA in Photography, SUNY Purchase College, New York

BA in Arts Management, SUNY Purchase College, New York

Guest Lectures, Artist Talks, Residencies

2025

Artist-in-Residence, Art for Artists Fellow, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (+500)

2024

Artist Talk, Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW), Kingston, NY

Artist-in-Residence, Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW), Kingston, NY (+2000)

Visiting Artist, Bard College

Visiting Artist, The New School, Parsons School of Design (+150)

Participating Artist, Lavendra/Recovery Project by E. Jane, Recess

2023

Guest Lecturer, Museum Education Practicum, Studio Museum Institute

Guest Artist, Teen Fridays with Mark Clennon, Metropolitan Museum of Art

2022

Visiting Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University (+$150)

Guest Critic, Steinhardt, New York University (+$200)

Visiting Artist, University of Connecticut (+$1000)

Visiting Artist, University of Illinois at Chicago (+$150)

Visiting Artist, The New School, Parsons School of Design (+$150)

Visiting Artist and Guest Critic, Bard College (+$550)

Visiting Artist, jGirls Magazine (+$250)

2021

Visiting Artist, University of Arkansas (+$150)

Artist Talk, Black Lunch Table (+350)

Artist-in-Residence, Fellowship Award, ChaNorth, Pine Plains, NY (postponed due to covid-19)

Artist-in-Residence, Private Residence, Springfield, VT

Visiting Artist, jGirls Magazine (+$250)

2020

Artist Talk, University of Arkansas (+$150)

Artist Talk, California State University, Long Beach (+$200)

Artist-in-Residence, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (postponed due to covid-19)

2019

Artist Talk, Marble Hill Camera Club

Art+Design Alumni Panel, SUNY Purchase College (+$200)

2018

Guest Keynote, "On the Perils and Possibilities of Being Diverse: a Conversation" with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Cristina Velásquez, + Giancarlo Montes Santangelo. Society for Photographic Education (SPE) Annual Conference, Uncertain Times: Borders, Refuge, Community, Nationhood, Philadelphia, PA (+$500)

Select Programming

2025

Career Day Panel, Teen Program organized with Magnum Foundation, New York, NY

2024

Photography Workshop, Aberdeen Community Garden, Brooklyn, NY

2022

Zine and Collage Workshop, organized by the Photographer’s Green Book, Visible Records, Charlottesville, VA

Zine and Collage Workshop, organized by the Photographer’s Green Book in collaboration with 8-ball Community and Magnum Foundation, Lower East Side History Month

2021

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture 75th Anniversary Block Party

2020

D’Talentz: The Secret Garden Premiere and Afterparty, online fundraiser for Walk the Walk 2020, featuring Tomashi Jackson, Nikita Gale, Ashley Teamer, Ariel René Jackson, and Sondra Perry

LOL (Lots of Love), event for the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, featuring DJ Yessi, Christie Blizard, and Devin Kenny

Select Highlights

2024

A Tapestry of Aliveness, exhibition curated by Magnum Foundation, New York, NY

Artwork acquisition, Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW), Kingston, NY

2022

Points of Departure, curatorial collaboration by the Photographer’s Green Book, Visible Records, Charlottesville, Virginia

Spring Fellow, Magnum Foundation

Primary Sources, exhibition curated by Sarah Smith, Study Hall Gallery, Utica, New York

Silver List Artist

2021

The Photographer’s Green Book Vol. 1, second printing, edited by Jay Simple and Sydney Ellison, published by PGB

The Photographer’s Green Book Vol. 1, first printing, edited by Jay Simple and Sydney Ellison, published by PGB (SOLD OUT)

Primal Sight, published by Gnomic Book

2020

Backtalk, exhibition curated by Aaron Turner, PHOTO-EMPHASIS x The Center for Photographers of Color

Group exhibition curated by Essex Flowers, Drawer.nyc

Soft Lightning Vol. 1, publication by Soft Lightning Studio (SOLD OUT)

2019

Incandescent, Issue Fifteen, publication by Pine Island Press

Winter 2019, curated by Sarah Kennel, The Curated Fridge, Somerville, Massachusetts

2018

Nothing Wrong With Money Honey, art auction benefiting The Florence Project, Brooklyn, New York

Selection from The Body Unlearning Its Weight, feature on New Poetics of Labor

Selection from The Body Unlearning Its Weight, interview with PHOTO-EMPHASIS

Al camello camello y al amor amor, edited by Cristina Velásquez, publication by New Poetics of Labor

Al camello camello y al amor amor, exhibition curated by New Poetics of Labor, Medellín, Colombia

2017

Riley at 10, inkjet print on wood panel, 4ft x 4ft, permanently installed, Purchase College, New York

WaCo Art Expo, exhibition curated by Devin Dugan, Washington Commons, Brooklyn, New York

The Body Unlearning Its Weight, solo thesis exhibition, SUNY Purchase, New York

Submissions Magazine, Spring Issue, Purchase, New York

2016

Saudade, exhibition curated by Devin Dugan, World Money Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

Submissions Magazine, Fall Issue, Purchase, New York

2015

Queries, group exhibition, Forum Art Space at SUNY Purchase, New York

Glimpse, solo exhibition curated for the Dance Theatre Lab, SUNY Purchase, New York

Beer + Visors, peer advisor group exhibition, SUNY Purchase, New York