Before moving into journalism, I spent many years curating and writing about contemporary art. At the Brooklyn Museum, I managed the interpretation program, overseeing wall labels and other educational materials for over thirty exhibitions. After that, I became founding editor of the Art21 Magazine, a digital publication affiliated with the award-winning PBS television series Art in the Twenty-First Century.

I’ve written for a range of publications, including ARTnews, Civil Eats, Hyperallergic, Gastronomica, Public Art Review, two Phaidon Press volumes and the anthology “Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing.” In 2019, I received an Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for my collaborative writing project, The Ostracon.

These days, I mainly focus on health and the environment. I’ve written stories about Black rice farmers adopting climate-friendly practices in the American South, community responses to Oakland’s first environmental plan, a dementia study that takes the form of a cooking class for Black and Latinx elders, and more.

People often tell me I “think like an artist,” which sums me up nicely: I’m insatiably curious about the human condition, have a knack for spotting connections others might miss and an inner drive to create, writing stories about issues that matter to me.

When I’m not writing, you can find me coaching women of color, traveling to new places, or hiking with my wife and our entitled English Pointer.