EDUCATION
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Ph.D., Human Services Psychology, NIH-IMSD Meyerhoff Graduate Fellow, 2018
M.A., Human Services Psychology, 2014
B.A., Psychology, 2010, Phi Beta Kappa
Diploma, Broadcasting Institute of Maryland
Broadcast Journalism, Morgan State University
INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Community Psychologist, Consultant
2018-present
Speaker, Workshop Facilitator
2001-present
Freelance Arts and Entertainment Journalist
1998-present
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Adjunct Professor, 2020-present
Community Psychology; Contemporary Social Issues
Bunting Neighborhood Leadership Program
Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute
Core Instructor, 2019-present
Professional development workshops and training for Deconstructing Racism module, with focus on community, culture, and identity
Baltimore Corps Fellowship Program
Subject Matter Expert, 2019, 2020
Professional development workshops and training regarding arts & culture, community, and racial equity
Baltimore Collegetown LeaderShape®
Cluster Facilitator, 2016-2017
LeaderShape Institute curriculum for community project development among student participants
Broadcasting Institute of Maryland, Baltimore
Instructor, News Director, Career Development Director, 2005-2007
COMMUNITY COLLABORATION EXPERIENCE
The Baltimore Field School, UMBC
Project Evaluator, 2020-present
TMOTTGoGo Regional Tour of Go-Go History
Traveling oral history exhibit and series presented by Take Me Out to the Go-Go
Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia
Co-creator, Co-host, 2019-present
Neighborhood Stories: A Community Participation Project for City People: Black Baltimore in the Photographs of John Clark Mayden
Baltimore, Maryland (Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University)
Community Meeting Facilitator, 2019
Equity Matters, Inc.
Baltimore, Maryland (as part of the National Collaborative for Health Equity)
Equity Fellow, 2013-2017
Baltimore Imagining Group
Founding Member, 2015-2017
Baltimore Participatory Action Research
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Co-President (2013-2015), Program Manager (2015-2016), Treasurer (2017)
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life Conference
Baltimore, Maryland
UMBC Planning Committee, 2014-2015
INVITED LECTURES
“Community as a Contested Concept”
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
February 2024
“Complicating Fixed Concepts of Community”
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
February 2022
“To be OF the Go-Go Community: A Community Research Journey”
New York University-DC, Washington D.C.
September 2021
“To Be OF the Go-Go Community: A Community Research Journey”
American University, Washington, DC
December 2020
“Research and Organizing. PAR, Power, and Challenging Theory.”
University of Maryland School of Social Work, Baltimore, MD
April 2018
“Membership and the We”
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
November 2017
“Participatory Action Research: Preparing for Practice”
University of Maryland School of Social Work, Baltimore, MD
April 2016