Born and raised in Decatur, Georgia, I echo sociologist Ruha Benjamin when saying that "I come from many Souths." My guiding frameworks are derived from the practices of multiplicity, vernacular, and inversion that I learned from my kin. I am the daughter of generations of Southern Black preachers and teachers, and I walk in their stead, always.
I am a PhD student in Art History at Stanford, collaging a Southern vernacular dreamspace that centers diasporic sites of memory and their visual representations. I seek to imagine and illuminate the ways in which Southern Black women foster what geographer Katherine McKittrick calls "a Black sense of place."
I enjoy cooking for friends and family, dancing anywhere and everywhere, and lifting weights to the musical stylings of problematic faves.