ADVOCATE, ACTIVIST, EDUCATOR
I am an advocate for the advancement of people of African descent from oppression to liberation and self-actualization.
The history and contributions of our lineage help to mold our knowledge of self and provide us with an understanding of our own culture. It is critical for this history to be celebrated, explained, observed, understood, and honored.
NOLA BLACK SELFIE PROJECT
The NOLA Black Selfie Project provides New Orleanians with the opportunity to embrace a most profound and powerful connection to our history, to ourselves, and to each other; to colorfully enlighten our past, vindicate who we are in the present, and inspire a future of even greater contributions to our collective history. The NOLA Black Selfie Project strives to create a more equitable telling of this city’s history for everyone through a series of selfies at historically-significant sites posted to social media with accompanying captions that highlight the influence of Black New Orleanians, whose contributions continue to exist in the margins of our history.
BABY DADDY COLLECTIVE
Established in 2015, The Baby Daddy Collective (BDC) works to cultivate, support, mentor, and educate Black men in New Orleans who are fathering children from estranged relationships. Through personal bonds forged by shared experiences such as play dates, retreats, field trips, father-daughter spa days, cooking class for dads, and the barbershop series, we re-establish an individual responsibility to ourselves as fathers and recommit ourselves to journey with youth on a path to adulthood with self-awareness, pride, acceptance, and accomplishment.