Written Work
Examples of my work as a published essayist, performer, and facilitator.
Published Work
December 2020
Acquired two grants after publishing a personal essay allocated toward funding, researching, and facilitating storytelling community workshops using local personal and regional histories as a tool for combatting erasure of local community history as well as healing as liberation for adults and teens
Activist History Review
Facilitating and Speaking Engagements
The Stories We Live/Play: Because the Rules You Live By Are For A World That Doesn't Exist Anymore, Arts Center Capital Region/CREATE Community Studios/MDOCS
April 2021 - August 2022
Acquired two grants after publishing a personal essay allocated toward funding, researching, and facilitating storytelling community workshops using local personal and regional histories as a tool for combatting erasure of local community history as well as healing as liberation for adults and teens
As a result of oral histories received from these workshops, a documentary program with Skidmore College recorded several storytellers for an MDOC's Documentary.
NYU 2018 Bernstein Conference, New York Universty
May 2018
Presented to a panel of New York state educators. the importance of art for social change and its role in restorative justice. As president of an impactful social justice club in an inner city high school, the role of using art to discuss social justice issues had a positive impact in restorative justice and creating positive change in an urban school in front of a panel of New York state educators.
Positive Impacts: Discussing with other educators and researchers at presentation current and past practices used that were then implemented in the new restorative practices program, TAC-D.
Performance
The Woman on the Other Side of San Francisco, The Marsh Theater,
San Francisco, U.S.A.
August 2025
Performed a one-woman play, a 20-minute works in progress piece written by me which premiered at the Marsh Theater in San Francisco.
The play follows Amaly, who, due to AI taking over the workforce, gets laid off at the last non-profit in the world while living at home with her parents. On a date for an arranged marriage by her devout Christian Congolese parents, she hits her head, resulting in amnesia. She must find her identity through a series of sensuous and daring adventures against the desires of those who knew her in her past life. Hitting her head again, she regains her memory and must decide if she will reclaim her old identity or build a new one.
Crowded Fire Theater, Solo Performance Initiative,
San Francisco, U.S.A.
August 2025
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Art Haus: Berlin
Embodied Writing (Michelle Madsen) and Berlin Drift (Ariel Gutierrez Torres)
Berlin, Germany
August 2023
Enrolled in professional embodied performance workshops with international acting coach Ariel Torres as well as author and poet Michelle Madsen beside international artists to learn embodied writing performance practices and embodied storytelling skills.
Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment (Brendan Fernandes and Autumn Knight), Performer
Neuburger Museum of Art,
Purchase, NY
February 2023 - April 2023
Participated in embodied performances choreographed by highly acclaimed visiting artists such as Autumn Knight and Brendan Fernandes as part of their solo exhibitions that have toured across the United States.