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scholarly works

"A Universe Inside Us" The Fight & The Fiddle, 2025	The Furious Flower Syllabus Project Awarded a 2025 Divergent Award by the Initiative for Literacy in the Digital Age.	"Toolbox for the Theatrical Lyricist" Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024	The Color Purple musical adaptation "Remarkable Receptions" podcast of the Black Literature Network

collegiate courses

AFAM126N: History of Hip Hop

Department of African American Studies, Penn State University

NMED PS 5900-11: Medical Humanities: Poetry to Confront Medical Apartheid in the U.S

Division of Narrative Medicine, Columbia University

ENGL 15: Rhetoric and Composition

Department of english, Penn State University

ENGL/AFAM 468: African American Poetry (TA)

Department of english, Penn State University

ENGL 2090: Black Women Poets

Department of English, University of New Orleans

"communiversity"

Revolutionary Poetics: Black Poetry in the American Canon

Girls Write Now

Frances E. W. Harper: Arts and Activism Writing Workshops

Park Forest Middle School

Boston Children's Choir (Castle of Our Skins)

The Art of Poetry Reading & Writing

Centre County Correctional Facility (Restorative Justice Initiative)

The Art of Poetry Writing

Roots of Life Performing Arts Ensemble

Bridgeport Juvenile Detention Center (Castle of Our Skins))

Honors English: African American Literature

Benjamin Franklin High School

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