Before I decided to pursue a journalism degree, I spent two decades curating and writing about contemporary art.

At the Brooklyn Museum, I managed the interpretation program, overseeing wall labels and educational materials for over thirty exhibitions. After that, I was editor of the Art21 Magazine, a digital publication affiliated with the award-winning PBS 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 write about health and the environment. I’ve reported stories about Black rice farmers in the South, Oakland’s first environmental plan, a cooking class for Black and Latinx elders at risk of dementia 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 immersed in writing, you can find me coaching women of color, going on trips and hiking with my wife and our entitled English Pointer.