EXPERIENCE
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March 2025 - Present
I oversee a variety of tasks related to research, development, and communications. I manage and organize data related to copyrights, artist information, and metadata, ensuring all records are kept up-to-date and easily accessible. I coordinate and facilitate regular web archiving activities, curating collections for public display and publication. Additionally, I contribute to the development and execution of communications strategies, including creating and distributing regular newsletters, managing social media content, and supporting community engagement efforts through events and workshops.
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May 2025 - June 2025
WARC School is Archiving the Black Web’s training program that aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience online. The curriculum supports an inclusive web archiving practice that equally values the development of technical skills and the cultivation of web archiving practices informed by cultural practices and ways of knowing.
Course Taught: A Black History of the Web
Course Description: A Black History of the Web asks what are Black people’s contributions to the culture, infrastructure, development, and experience of the Internet from its inception till now. From discussions and lectures about computing pioneers to digital activism to social media, participants will gain an understanding of Black digital life and precarity and the scholarship and art that illuminates and contends with Black folks' engagement with the Internet.
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Digital Archives & Communication Fellow
January 2025 - Present
I am responsible for NWHM's efforts to commemorate the U.S. semiquincentennial in 2026 and the Museum's role as the exclusive National Resource Partner for Women’s History to the America250 Commission. In this role, I oversee NWHM's Chronicles of American Women initiative, which seeks to solicit, share, and archive short public biographies of contemporary American women in advance of the semiquincentennial.
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June 2023 - Present
In this role, I developed research project on Black technocultures presented on TikTok to contribute to the program goals of mapping and describing the Black Web. “#BlackBookTok: Made by Black Readers for Black Readers,” investigates the need for the collection and preservation of examples of affective labor by Black women within digital spaces. Black women are positioned at the forefront of literary discussions online as creators of Black intimate storytelling through their own unique digital practices.
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Digital Curator & Research Consultant
May 2023 - November 2024
This role included archival curation of over 3,000 stories of Black history surrounding Appomattox, VA and the Civil War. Primarily, this project focused on historical and genealogical research of Black churches as well as website development and mixed-media editing including video, audio, and still images.