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I am an Afrofuturist cultural preservationist focused on the ways in which Black cultural landscapes transform access to special collections and archives through a Black speculative methodology that utilizes extended reality (XR) and other digital humanities tools. In my postdoctoral fellowship, I recently launched a project entitled Sacred Geographic Superimpositions, which is a spiritual scholarly endeavor to document and celebrate ephemeral Black public art in Philadelphia in a manner that transports them into the ancestral plane of the “transformative archive” to bring scholarly research and data curation out of the academy into a curated space grounded in storytelling and interpretation through story mapping and augmented reality (AR). I have also co-developed a mapping visualization entitled Philly Necrofutures to combine art historical research with data curation and visualization to address under-resourced Black collections at predominantly white institutions. Additionally, I have been researching Black artists in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Temple University Libraries Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, and other local organizations to enhance their digital visibility through linked open data.

Through my diligent work and commitment to professional excellence, I have been elevated to participate in several leadership opportunities within my institutions and beyond. I currently serve as the co-chair of the Advocates for Black Representation staff working group at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and I am the primary mentor for the LEADING Fellows program at Temple University Libraries hosted through Drexel University. I have also served as a mentor for the Robert F. Smith internship program at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, a co-editor of the Curated Futures Project: A Third Library Is Possible (futures.clir.org) through the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the secretary for the Association of African American Museums Emerging Museum Professionals committee.

Outside of my postdoctoral fellowship, I have been consulting as a researcher for the Association of African American Museums to identify strategies for member institutions to use traveling, shared, and collaborative exhibitions to build capacity; the Association for the Study of African American Life and History to document 500 years of Black history in South Florida; the HBCU Library Alliance to explore the challenges and opportunities for member institutions to create access to their special collections and archives through digitization projects; and the Hyattsville Community Development Corporation to write a report contextualizing the historic use of racially restrictive deed covenants to uphold residential segregation in Hyattsville, Maryland. I recently joined the inaugural cohort of the Association of African American Museums-Howard University School of Business Advanced Executive Leadership training program and am eager to continue to push forward the AAAM mission to strengthen and advocate for the interests of institutions and individuals committed to the preservation of African-derived cultures.