Historical Consultant & Public Facilitator
Richmond National Battlefield Park (RNBP), National Park Service
I am currently a historical consultant and public facilitator funded by the National Park Foundation Inclusive Storytelling Grant: Reconstructing Richmond: Telling the Stories of Native Americans and Formerly Enslaved Persons at Chimborazo, 2024-2025. I work with historians, park rangers, museum curators, and community stakeholders to develop and execute community outreach and listening sessions, about RNBP’s Chimborazo Medical Museum. This outreach effort will inform which stories the community is most interested in so that RNBP can produce interpretive media from a more informed perspective.
Historical Consultant
Chimborazo Park Conservancy, designated 501(c)(3)
I am currently a historical consultant for the non-profit organization Chimborazo Park Conservancy. I work with community leaders and local residents to advise on site-specific histories related to the park, from early settlement of Indigenous history to present-day use. I authored an article on behalf of the conservancy about the new Virginia State Department Historic marker placed at the park that commemorates the history of an emancipated African American community who previously lived on-site during the Reconstruction era. I also advise the conservancy on potential ideas for funding for outdoor exhibits and coordinate members with other community stakeholders such as Fourth Baptist Church, Church Hill Association, and the Richmond National Battlefield Park.
HBCU History Culture and Access Consortium
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African American History & Culture, and Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
Funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), the HCAC project’s goal is to digitize and increase equitable access to archival and museum objects across a cohort of five HBCUs and to support institutional capacity building. I served as a Project Coordinator and Omeka S trainer for over 75 participants from 2021-2023.
Digital History Advanced Research Projects Accelerator
Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg
I was selected for a Research Fellowship at the University of Luxembourg’s C2DH for the spring 2023 term, where I worked as a team member on the Digital History Advanced Research Projects Accelerator (DHARPA) that seeks to develop a digital research tool for historians.
Mapping The University
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
Funded by a 4-VA Collaborative Research Grant. MTU is a digital public history project and open educational resource that provides archival sources and analysis about the construction of George Mason University (GMU) and Old Dominion University (ODU).
Enslaved Naturalist
John Mitchell Jr. Program for History, Justice, and Race at George Mason University
Funded by the National Parks Service’s 400 Years of African American History Commission and published in 2021, this digital public history project explores African Americans’ contributions to the area of natural history between 1619-1863. I served as Digital Humanities Coordinator and co-authored two essays about Harriet Tubman’s life based on archival research, digital mapping, and interviews with scholars and community members in Maryland.
Divided Union
C.W. Bright Pixel Prize Winner for Best History & New Media Project from George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Awarded C.W. Bright Pixel Prize in 2022, I co-created this digital public history project with Janine Hubai to contextualize the history behind Confederate statues, symbols, and base names that were nationally protested in the U.S. in the summer of 2020.
Mobility in Slavery and Freedom: Mapping Paths of Escape, Enslavement, and Freedom in the U.S., 1830-1850
George Mason University, History PhD Program
A project that visualizes and analyzes the paths of nine individuals who escaped from slavery during the antebellum era. Using R programming language to map nine different paths in the leaflet package, I argue that mobility was integral to slavery, freedom, and the liminal.
Buried Histories: A Feminist View of Land, Space, and U.S. Universities
Georgia State University, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies MA Program
The digital and condensed version of my Master’s thesis that explores the different representations and commemorations of the histories of settler colonialism, slavery, and whiteness from a feminist perspective. Researchered in 2019 and published online in 2020.
