Site Unseen: Reclaiming Place, Rewriting Memory
Project Manager, 2023-present
Site Unseen is a collaborative digital storytelling project linking undergraduate students with men incarcerated in DC’s Correctional Treatment Facility. This project uses digital humanities tools to preserve memories often erased by incarceration. Grounded in restorative justice and critical race studies, this project asks how place, memory, and storytelling can challenge systemic inequality.
Incarcerated communities—mostly Black men in DC—are often excluded from public memory-making. Site Unseen addresses this by creating StoryMaps of locations of personal significance (for example, public parks, recreation centers, schools, and neighborhood landmarks), blending personal narrative with their multimodal translations to form counter-archives and public art. Centering co-authorship and consent, the project rejects extractive prison education practices. Students engage questions of equity and representation, while gaining avenues for creative expression and advocacy.
Community-Led Schoolyard Redesign
Farrell School: A Place That’s Alive, 2019-2023
Project Manager, 2019-2021
A community game playing, storytelling, and design initiative that has resulted in the transformation of Farrell’s schoolyard, including the introduction of greening, landscaping, new play equipment, and gathering spaces for the school’s students to gain literacy skills.
Southwark School: Our Park/Southwark, 2017-2021
Project Manager, 2019-2021
A community-led redesign of Southwark Elementary’s outdoor spaces instigated by Mural Arts Philadelphia’s Environmental Justice Initiative, provided a platform where the community co-designed beauty and meaning through collective thinking and artistic practices.
Pennell School: The Seasons of Imagination, 2019-2024
Project Manager, 2019-2021
A collaboration between youth, families, teachers, and staff of Pennell School, designed to increase literacy skills through playful learning, highlight school pride, create a sense of community, and the expansiveness of imagination.
