• curriculum vitae

    EDUCATION

    2016, University of California, Berkeley BFA, Film and Media Studies

    Bard College
    2027, Bard MFA Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Summer Low-Residency | Moving Image

    EMPLOYMENT

    2024-2025, Director
    Chimera, Short Film
    Hybrid-Oakland, CA + NY

    2022, Editor + Producer
    African American Studies Department
    UC Berkeley
    Oakland, CA

    2021, TV Writers’ Room Assistant
    Director Boots Riley
    Oakland, CA

    2018-2020, Director’s Assistant
    Director Boots Riley
    Oakland, CA- Hybrid

    2020, Public Video Art Coordinator BLKNWS
    UC Berkeley + Kahlil Joseph Studio
    Oakland, CA- Hybrid

    2018-2019, Video Director + Cinematographer
    Everlane Inc. | San Francisco, CA

    SUMMER 2015, NBCUniversal Fellowship
    Production/Social Media Late Night with Seth Meyers
    New York, NY

    2012-2016, Program Assistant
    Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive | Berkeley, CA

    EXHIBITIONS + SCREENINGS

    2024 | Human Resources | LA
    Film: The World Doesn’t End When You Do

    2024 | DIFFUSION Festival | CAN
    Film: Confessional

    2024 | SF Grace Cathedral | CA
    Installation: Confessional

    2023 | MAD HOUSE YSTÄVÄT | Finland
    Film: Velvet Rain

    2022 | Wexner Center for Arts | OH
    Film: Copper

    2020 | Films for Escapism | LA
    Film: Velvet Rain

    2019 | Ukrainian Culture Center | LA
    Film: Velvet Rain (opener for Sun Ra Arkestra's live score)

    2019 | SOMArts | SF
    Installation: Velvet Rain

    2018 | Museum of the African Diaspora | SF
    Film: Gemini

    2018 | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | Chicago
    Film: Copper

    2018 | Playground Coffee | NY
    Film: Gemini, Copper

    2018 | Junior High Gallery | LA
    Film: Copper

    2018 | MOCA | LA
    Film: Copper

    2018 | New School | NY
    Film: Copper

    2018 | Ann Arbor Film Festival | MI
    Film: Copper

    2018 | Carneigie Mellon | PA
    Film: Copper

    2018 | FEElS 6 | Oak
    Film: Copper

    2018 | National Museum of African American History and Culture | DC Film: Copper

    2018 | Kennedy Center | DC
    Film: Copper

    2018 | The Black Aesthetic | Oak
    Film: Copper

    2017 | Mills College | Oak
    Film: Copper

    RESEARCH + RESIDENCY

    2023-2024 Studio Lamella Screenwriting Lab
    Virtual + NY, NY

    2022, Artist Residency
    This Will Take Time
    Oakland, CA

    2020, Production Residency
    SFFILM House Residency
    San Francisco, CA

    2020, Online Residency
    SF MOMA
    San Francisco, CA

    2019 Echo Park Film Center
    16mm Summer Workshop
    Los Angeles, CA

    2018, Black Radical Imagination Tour
    West + East Coast

    2018, Little Paper Planes Artist Residency
    Minnesota Street Project
    San Francisco, CA

    TALKS

    2016, Co-instructor: Race and Film
    Film & Media Department, UC Berkeley

    2018, Artist Talk, Stanford University

    AWARDS + GRANTS

    2017, Kennedy Center
    VSA Emerging Young Artists Grant

    2017, Certificate of Recognition of Achievement in the Arts,
    U.S. Senator (V.P.) | Kamala D. Harris

    2017, Certificate of Recognition of Achievement in the Arts
    U.S. Representative | Barbara Lee