Conjuring… A Résumé

PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDING:

• 2022 Root Journal Publication

• 2020    An Acceptable Sacrifice, Midnight & Indigo Black Women Writers Anthology (online)

• 2020 50 in 50: Letters to Our Daughters Publication, On-line

• 2020    The Matriarch Project, Black Women’s Blue Print, Brooklyn, NY

• 2019    Untitled 5, Black Female Photographers Annual Magazine, Atlanta, Georgia 

• 2019    Sweetness, Writer, Restoration Art and Billie holiday Theatre, Los Angeles, California

• 2015    The world is as Big or small as you make it, (Concept, cameraperson) Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah.

• 2010    Thank you for the Roses, (Director/Writer/Producer, Editor), MDGFIVE.COM: Uniting Artists and Activists for Maternal Health, New York, NY

• 2009 Do Remember Me, (Director/Writer/Co-Producer, Co-Editor), Mind Media Independence, Philadelphia Stories 7, Philadelphia, PA

• 2008    LiLi, experimental short film (Director/Writer/Producer, Co-Editor), Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA

• 2008    Pau Pau, short film (Director/Writer/Producer, Co-Editor), Termite TV, www.termite.org 

• 2008    Poetry/neo-soul recording, Illvibe Collective, South Africa / United Kingdom

• 2007    Conversations with my Conscience, screening (Director/Writer/Producer, Co-Editor), 60th  Cannes       Film Festival, Cannes, France and Philadelphia

• 2005,2008   Poetry Ink, Chapbook (Philadelphia: Robin’s Bookstore)

PERFORMANCES, RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS:

• 2021 Justice for my Sister  Sci-Fi Screenwriting Lab

• 2021  Barbara Neely Fellowship

• ​2021  MVICW Author Fellowship

• 2020   Exhibition, Noyes Museum of Art, Stockton University, Atlantic City, NJ

• 2018   Exhibition, RUSH Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

• 2015-2017 Residency, Philadelphia Latino Film Festival

• 2015 Residency, LaMancia, Florence, Italy

• 2015   Exhibition, 75ºOeste/75ºWest, Medellin, Colombia

• 2013-2016 Residency, The Village Arts, Philadelphia, PA 

• 2013 Facilitator, New Design H.S., New York, NY

• 2010-2011 Residency, Women’s Center, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

• 2011-2013 Residency, Youth Empowerment Services, Philadelphia, PA 

• 2011 Residency, Multi-Cultural Arts Center, Budapest, Hungary

• 2009   Curator, Kenyan Artist Exchange Program, Philadelphia, PA-Kenya

• 2009   Curator, Citibank Annual Art Auction,  Montgomeryville, PA

• 2008   Exhibition, Artist Exchange at the Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA

• 2007   Exhibition, The Un-Inhibited Muse Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA

AWARDS AND HONORS:

• 2024 Grant, Philadelphia Cultural Treasures

• 2023 Juror, International  Documentary Association

• 2023     Juror,  Independence Public Media Foundation

• 2021       Award, Independence Public Media Foundation 

• 2021       Award, Arts Connect International Ripple 

• 2020      Grant, Scribe Independence Public Media Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation. 

• 2020      Grant, @30AMP          

• 2015       Award, Sadsbury Friends      

• 2015       Award, Sundance Film Institute Short Story Challenge Grand Prize       

• 2012       Grant, MoFilm/AT&T       

• 2009      Grant, Mind Media Independence, Philadelphia Stories 7        

• 2008      Honorarium, Asian Arts Initiative   

• 2007      Grant, Philadelphia Activity Fund

• 2006, 2018, 2020 Grant, Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant 

• 2001        Honorable Mention, 10th Annual Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema 

• 2000, 2002   Award, School District of Philadelphia