EDUCATION
2020 Master of Fine Arts in Photography, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2009 Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, cum laude, Buffalo State University, Buffalo, NY | Minor: Political Science
RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS & WORKSHOPS
2021 DocX Archive Lab Fellowship, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
2021 Happy and Bob Doran Connecticut Artist in Residence
2020 UnionDocs Center for Documentary Arts (Fall CoLAB)
2020 Eddie Adams Workshop
2019 New York Times Portfolio Review
GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2022 Artist Respond, Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts, Grant Recipient
2020 Art and Social Justice Initiative, Grant Recipient
2020 Dean's Critical Practice Research Grant, Grant Recipient
2019 The NikonStoryteller Scholarship, Semi-finalist
2018 Yale Women Faculty Forum Seed Grant, Grant Recipient
2017 Lucie Foundation, Emerging Artist Scholarship, Shortlist
2017 Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, Gardiner-Shenker Scholar, Grant Recipient
SOLO EXHIBITION
2022 Fairfield Museum and History Center, Fairfield, CT
2022 Donaldson Gallery, Miss Porter's School, Farmington, CT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Footnotes and Other Embedded Stories, Artspace New Haven, CT
2021 25 Things to Photograph, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Homecoming, JKC Gallery, Trenton, NJ
2021 what is the also?, Archive/Project Space, Pittsfield, MA
2021 Hindsight 2020, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2021 Free as Air and Water, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
2020 Across the Diaspora, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, New Haven, CT
2020 Shifting Sights, Area Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 Hindsight 2020, Online Thesis Exhibition, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2020 Rituals of Resistance, The Urban Collective, New Haven, CT
2019 Odds and Ends Art Book Fair, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2019 Untitled (MFA 2nd Year Fall Show), Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2019 HOME: Where I Seek, I Find, Myself, PHmuseum, online
2019 Black Femme Mystique, Nick Theater-Trumbull College - Yale University, New Haven, CT
2019 Complicit: Erasure of the Body, Yale Divinity, New Haven, CT
2018 Run What You Brung!!, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2018 The State of America, The PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2017 The Crisis in Black Education, ASALH, Cincinnati, OH
2017 H2O Project, LaGuardia Gallery of Photographic Arts, Long Island City, NY
2017 The Lavender Line: Coming out in Queens, Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
2017 68° North: A Visual Journey Through The Alaskan Wilderness, LaGuardia Gallery of Photographic Arts, Long Island City, NY
2015 Raw Artist: Brooklyn Presents “Bold,” Brooklyn, NY
2014 ONWARD Compe’, Project Basho Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
PUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHY
2021 The New York Times Style Magazine
2021 The Wall Street Journal
2021 Travel + Leisure Magazine, August
2021 The Trace, online feature, June
2021 NPR, online, March
2020 Musee Magazine, online feature, December
2020 EarthJustice, August, pg. 19
2020 Bloomberg Businessweek, pg. 2-11, July
2019 Retrospecta 42, Yale School of Architecture, pg. 141, September
2018 Aint-Bad, online feature, August
2018 The State of America, The PhotoPlace Gallery, pg. 66, December
2018 14th Annual Smithsonian Magazine - The American Experience, online, January
2017 The Lit Magazine, CUNY, pg. 52, Spring
2017 National Geographic, Daily Dozen, May
2017 Photographer’s Forum Magazine, pg. 86
2017 CUNY Matters, pg.5, February
2016 Photo District News, pg.61, December
2013 Metro US, pg.8, October
SELECTED ACCOLADES
2024 AI-AP 40 Chosen Winner
2022 National Academy of Arts, Emmy Nomination, Regional - Boston/New England Chapter
2020 Bill Epperidge Memorial Award
2020 John Ferguson Weir Award
2017 10th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, Portrait Winner, Fine Art Finalist, Editorial & Documentary Runner Up
2017 Photographer’s Forum Magazine, Best of College & High School Photography, Finalist
2016 Photo District News, “World in Focus” competition, 1st Place
2014 ONWARD Compe’, International Photo competition, Popular Vote Winner
2013 Metro US, International Photo competition, New York Finalist
2012 National Academy of Arts, Emmy recognition for Special Class series, MTV “MADE”
CURATORIAL & COLLABORATIONS
2022 Fairfield Museum and History Center, Fairfield, CT (Randolph Ward Collection)
2020 Black Archive New Haven: A Collective Memory Project
2019 Systems of Power at (dis)play, Yale School of Architecture (Co-writer and photographer)
2019 The Indispensable Project, Susan B. Hilles Gallery, New Haven, CT (Co-curator)
VOLUNTEER & MENTORSHIPS
2021 Social Justice Reader Program, The Institute Library, New Haven, CT
2021 LinkHer, The Female Center of Excellence and Leadership, Indianapolis, IN
ARTIST TALKS
2022 Miss Porter's School, Spring '22 Prescott Visitng Artist, Farmington, CT
2021 Memorializing History: A Conversation About Monuments, Truth, and Justice, Yale Schuwarzman Center, New Haven, CT
2021 LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY
2021 Free as Air and Water by Tajh Rust
2020 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum - Amistad Center, Hartford, CT
2020 Summerbridge, San Francisco University High School, San Francisco, CA
2019 Green Hall, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2019 F8 Photo Collective, Kehler Gallery, New Haven, CT
2019 The Manner in Which We Dwell: Thinking Nature with New Haven Artists, Yale University, New Haven, CT
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2021 Adjunct Professor, Introduction to Digital Photography, Adelphi University
2019 Teaching Assistant to Danna Singer, Beginning Black and White Photography, Yale School of Art
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
2021 Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library | Thesis Portfolio
2019 Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library | The Indispensable Project book
2017 Wagner Archives, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY
ORGANIZATIONS
2021 Black Women Photographers, member
2020 Diversify Photo, member