Creative and professional development

2025

2024

2023

  • Spring 2025. Hosted by Prism

  • Spring 2025-Winter 2026. Hosted by Web Archiving School (WARC)

  • July-August 2024. Hosted by Button Poetryy

  • Baldwin For the Arts Fellow - Literature, 2023-2024

  • (2024) Creative incubator and cohort for mentorship and collaboration. Meet the Compose Cohort here.

  • February 2023. Hosted by The Forge

  • Winter 2023. Hosted by L. Dindial & The People’s Forum

2022

  • Fall 2022. Marxism 101 Course facilitated by Center for Political Education. Completed multi-week course on Marxist foundations

  • Fall 2022. Liberatory Education, part of Bluelight Academy of the Liberal Arts Offered by SpringUp. Course on fundamental practices and theories in liberatory facilitation and education

  • Fall 2022. Writing as Ceremenoy BIPOC Writing Workshop, hosted by River Dandelion. Multi-week generative writing workshop

  • Fall 2022. Writing Workshop for community organizers and activists. Hosted by The Forge, facilitators Guante Solo and Miski

  • Spring-Summer 2022. Decolonial Community Herbalism Course offered by Rootwork Herbals

  • June 2022. Nonfiction writer. Bread Loaf Environmental Writing Conference in Bread Loaf, VT.

  • Spring Cohort of organizing training. Hosted byClimate Advocacy Lab

  • January 2022, In Surreal Life
    Creative Writing Virtual Residency hosted by Shira Erlichman

Facilitation

  • July 2023. As increasingly militarized policing in one place will eventually affect in other places, Dallas and other communities should just solidarity now. In this teach-in and workshop we hear from ATL organizers on the #StopCopCity movement, make connections to DFW, and creatively process via poetry.

  • June 2023. Keynote Speaker, Southeast Climate and Energy Network (SCEN)
    5-year Anniversary Celebration + Annual Meeting. “Inter-generational struggle: how youth, elders, and everyone in between can build a better climate future.”

  • Fall 2022. Co-created and co-facilitated “Marxism for Organizers Clinic Series” with People’s Hub.

  • March 2022. Invited panelist on a MIT Biomedical Engineering earth day event

  • Feb 2022. Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Northeast Regional Conference 2022: Towards the Anti-Racist University. Moderated panel of researchers “Communities in Action”

  • Feb 2022. Planned and co-facilitated annual member meeting of 50+ member ne

    work at Powershift Network

noname book club meets on the last Sunday of every month to discuss Black authored works of fiction and political nonfiction. We alternate between hosting at Pan-African Connection Bookstore in Dallas and The Dock Bookshop in Fort Worth. Check out our instagram for info on our next book pick and meeting date.

Awards &

Certifications

  • Selected as a fellow in literature to attend a BIPOC-focused writing residency in upstate NY Spring 2024. Baldwin For the Arts.

  • Awardee

    Put towards a 6 month course in decolonial community herbalism

  • Thelma Glass was a professor of geography at Alabama State University where she taught for over 40 years. She was also deeply committed to social change, having been a member of the Women's Political Council, which helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955-56. In addition to her academic interests in economic, cultural and physical geography, she was known around the Alabama State campus as a teacher-activist willing to put her ideals into concrete actions. Accordingly, we grant this prize to a graduating senior who best reflects Professor Glass' spirit as a scholar-activist.

  • Awarded to students in the top 5% of the graduating class

  • This award is presented to the graduating student of African descent, who has shown academic prowess and will graduate with honors in the social sciences.

  • Finalist

  • Trained Mentor

  • The Udall Foundation awards scholarships to college sophomores and juniors for leadership, public service, and commitment to issues related to Native American nations or the environment.

  • Multi-year fellowship to prepare undergraduate students from backgrounds underrepresented in academia for PhD studies.

  • Issued by Henry Luce Foundation; Research fellowship for undergraduate women in STEM.