What I do

Currently, I am practicing creative arts therapy with a specialization in drama therapy. I am based in Brooklyn, New York.

As an emerging drama therapy practitioner, I am eager to facilitate healing spaces that foster openness, authenticity, community, creativity, and liberation for all, especially those from historically marginalized communities. My training has involved working with populations from several treatment environments including hospital settings, nonprofit organizations, social service programs settings, and therapeutic theatre projects. In all of these, I have worked with youth, young adults, adults with acute illness, and adults with special needs, most of whom are Black, Indigenous, or People of color.

As a theatre artist, I consider myself an emerging playwright. My first short play, Afromemory, was produced at FRESHH Inc. Theatre's Next to Kin One-Act Festival, and a full-length version of the play was produced in a staged reading at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival in Fall 2018. Additionally, I was a Producing Playwright with The Welders, a playwrights’ collective in Washington, DC. Through The Welders, I produced my play Girls’ Night (with Spirits) in 2021.

I also occasionally direct and perform. When the opportunity arises, whether it’s full-length plays, short plays, or readings, I jump at the chance to be a part of the magic.

As a spiritualist, I read tarot and oracle cards in my spare time, and I love reading the cards for divination, self-improvement, and guidance at special events. I enjoy meeting people and using cards to help them in whatever way they feel best, although my cartomancy practice and my mental health practice are entirely separate.

Why I do what I do, whatever I do...

As a lover of stories, I reveled in the prospect of getting lost in fantastical universes, where anything can happen, and where anyone can do or be anything. But alongside my enthusiasm was the acceptance that people who looked like me did not really exist in many of the stories that I loved.

As a storyteller, I no longer accept that Black women don’t belong in fantastical stories. The genre known as speculative, including science fiction and fantasy, is still pining for more Black women's voices and more Black women's stories that expand definitions of Black humanity, Black womanhood, and Black consciousness. There is beauty and wonder in the strength of Black women and my prose and dramatic writing intend to place Black women characters in a 3-dimensional form with infinite possibilities of what they are truly capable of. Furthermore, my artistic goal in any project that I am involved in will always and forevermore compel the audience, the reader, the onlooker, the witness to view Black women as human, as complex people deserving of respect and agency, and most importantly, as awesome.

What else?

I live a creative life at all times. I love the performing arts and visual arts. I love seeing how art can connect with people and connect people, and I really do believe that art is a very viable way to affect change in our communities.

I support community activism, I support dismantling oppression, mental wellness, and I support diversity. I support real, honest conversations about issues that affect us most, though at times very differently.

I love to learn, and I am always looking for the next documentary. I love films; I love music; I love Chocolate. I love my dog.

I'm a Capricorn sun, Virgo rising, and Taurus Moon. :)