As a part of the Starting Bloc LA’17 Cohort, I lead a blind portraiture workshop to deepen community connection and belonging.

For 4 years, I was the Creative Synthesizer and Joy Cultivator for Black Womxn Flourish, a design for wellbeing collective. I led workshops, provided strategy, and created illustrations and collages for their Manifesto.

strategy and ideation sessions with the collective

vision board dreaming workshop I led that would inform the final manifesto

a workshop I co-led with founder Denise Shante Brown for BlackSpace’s Juneteenth webinar in 2022

group screenshot of one of our manifesto ideation workshops in 2021/2022

A digital collage I made for the Manifesto, images sourced from grandmother’s archive of magazines

A digital collage I made for the Manifesto, images sourced from grandmother’s archive of magazines

A digital collage I made for the Manifesto, images sourced from grandmother’s archive of magazines

A digital collage I made for the Manifesto, images sourced from grandmother’s archive of magazines

I led our “Manifesto Pollination” campaign where we identified Black Womxn creatives, artists, healers, and educators who we personally gifted the Manifesto. Pictured is me and my yoga teacher Dr. Alston.

A picture of the items I pollinated/gifted to arts administrator and artist Kayla Morgan.

In 2024, I co-founded an herbalist collective in Philadelphia where we focused on “seed to mouth” herbal medicine to give for free to Black people in the Greater Philadelphia region. I raised $15,000 for the collective, which in part helped fund our launch event pictured here.

Cleavers tea, a wonderful lymphatic spring tonic. I made this tea and led a workshop about the properties and benefits of this herb at the launch event.

Cleavers I foraged

Picture of me leading the cleavers workshop and cleavers tea tasting

A picture of me sowing seeds for the first full growing season of the collective

A picture of me leading a Fall strategy session for the collective