As a Fulbright Fellow in South Africa, I designed and led community programs that prioritized inclusivity and engagement.

As a personal assistant to a prominent poet and professor, I managed personal and professional secretarial work with competence, care and discretion.

As a co-founder of the Young Africana Leadership Initiative (YAALI) at Howard University, I organized and attended two trips to Ghana and South Africa, each with over thirty students conducting service and research.

As a grant-writing associate at Howard University, I supported staff preparation of timely and accurate research grant applications.

As a youth program staff member at the YMCA, I led after-school and summer youth programming, creating welcoming, accessible spaces for both children and adults.

As an independent consultant, I’m currently developing a storytelling project for a major philanthropic collective working to end gun violence in Chicago.

As a legal fellow at the Invisible Institute, I collaborated closely with the Head of Development to build and maintain strategic partnerships, consistently delivering results that advanced the organization's mission.

At the Invisible Institute, my in-house legal work contributed to a variety of projects, including:

• the Youth/Police Project, a long-term oral-history and multimedia project documenting young people’s encounters with policing in Chicago

• the Burroughs Project, exploring the legacy of Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs

• the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Chicago Law School

As Editor-in-Chief of my law journal, I oversaw a team of 60 editors. I managed our complex workflows and maintained professionalism while liaising with the authors that we published and the school administrators.

As a research assistant to Kermit Roosevelt III, I conducted research on the issue of term limits for President Biden’s Commission for Reforming the Supreme Court.

College, graduate school, and law school admissions support

Licensed Chicago Public Schools substitute teacher

Experienced teaching-assistant or research assistant to professors in several fields, including Egyptology, Africana Studies, and English

Graduate level Egyptology coursework completed directly under the curator of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Host of Egyptology workshops, in-person tours of exhibitions, private tutoring in Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs among other subjects, and commissions for ancient Egyptian translation and research.