Artist-in-Residence
Fall 2025 | University of Colorado-Boulder
In Fall 2025, I served as Artist-in-Residence at the University of Colorado Boulder’s American Music Research Center and the Center for African & African American Studies (CAAAS). During my residency, I taught classes, led workshops, and engaged students and audiences in conversations about music, culture, and artistic practice—blending performance with scholarship and community dialogue. The residency culminated in a public guest recital featuring selections from my body of work, an intimate performance that traced my evolution as an artist and explored new ways of presenting hip-hop in academic spaces.
Artist-in-Residence
Georgetown University | 2019-2014
I served as Artist-in-Residence at Georgetown University from 2019-2024, where I built a sustained, multi-disciplinary creative practice rooted in music, storytelling, and community engagement. During my residency, I developed original work, including Requiem for the Enslaved, while also curating performances, conversations, and public programs that centered Southern Black life, history, and spiritual imagination.
A core part of my work at Georgetown involved curating events that brought together multi-disciplinary artists and thinkers from across the country. I collaborated with scholars and cultural leaders including Dr. Charles Hughes (Rhodes College), Dr. S. Craig Watkins (University of Texas at Austin) and Dr. Earnest (Auburn University), among others, creating spaces where music, scholarship, and lived experience could meet. These programs explored themes such as Sneaker culture, Film & music, arts entrepreneurship, Black masculinity, environmental sustainability, the role of culture in shaping collective futures and more.
Event Posters
Year
01/01/0001
During my tenure I invited and hosted powerful contemporary artists—including Lacie Jordan, April Kae, LaRussell, and Jesi Jumanji—using performance as a catalyst for dialogue, reflection, and community connection. In addition to public-facing work, I facilitated a writers’ room on campus for my audio drama series Bloodbound, where I developed and wrote the first season in collaboration with creative partners.
My time at Georgetown expanded the role of the artist within the university, positioning creative practice as both scholarship and community practice. Through music, storytelling, and curated dialogue, I helped build a model for how artists can meaningfully engage academic spaces while remaining grounded in cultural integrity and creative freedom.