Experience

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  Public broadcasting service

  Jan 2005 - Aug 2006

  Administrative coordinator: programming
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  Center for community arts partnerships

  Jan 2007 - Aug 2011

  • Community Schools Program Associate

    Jan 2008 - Aug 2011

  • Graduate Assistant; Office of Multicultural Affairs

    Jan 2007 - Nov 2008
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  Grant park music festival

  May 2007 - Jul 2008

  Patron services/develpoment associate
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  Columbia college chicago

  Apr 2012 - Apr 2015

  Program & operations manager
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  Pure art solutions

  Sept 2015 - now

  Founder & chief strategist

  Guide arts-centered nonprofits and educational institutions to build stronger community work cultures of collaboration, disrupt systems of oppression and develop creative road maps to achieve their visions.Facilitate a customizable strategic planning process that centers humanity, collaboration, and equity. All voices are heard and lifted through creative team building, visioning, reflection, and assessment work to help organizations think ambitiously and efficiently plan how to advance their mission from year to year; Clients include: - Cal Arts Community Arts Partnerships- National Guild for Community Arts Education- Arts for Healing & Justice Network- Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture- Turnaround Arts, a program of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Show less

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  Los angeles county department of arts and culture

  Oct 2015 - now

  Strategic planning consultant
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  California institute of the arts

  Mar 2016 - Aug 2016

  Program coordinator
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  Turnaround arts: california

  Sept 2016 - Jan 2023

  Senior program manager - operations & partnerships
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  The afara collective

  Jan 2022 - Aug 2022

  Advisory committee
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  National guild for community arts education

  Nov 2022 - Aug 2023

  Strategic planning consultant
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  Destination crenshaw

  Jun 2023 - now

  Director of public art programs

  Responsible for growing DC's public art programming and capacity to commission the largest public art project focused on contemporary Black art in the United States. Integral to the development and execution of the project, working with the Governing Board of Directors, DC Leadership Team, Community Advisory Council, and Public Art Curatorial Committee. Primarily responsible for the launch and growth of the DC Arts Corps, a public art workforce pipeline program focused on increasing the career opportunities for artists and other members of the creative economy in the Crenshaw District. Show less