CV/Public Output
Hi again 🌱 and welcome to a snapshot of my public work over the last decade. My work explores my intersecting interests of technology, culture & aesthetics, ecology, memory, and futurisms. Everything I teach is an extension of the knowledge I’ve gained from researching, writing, speaking, building, and learning. Looking for a speaker, writer, or educator? Let’s chat. 💌
Speaking
“Observations of Alter(Native) Approaches to Design” @ Netflix Design | Nov 2022
“A State of Perpetual Memory: Native Identity Through Connection to Land” @ Seedcast, Nia Tero Podcast | April 2022
“Heart-Centered Teaching” Presentation @ New York University | Jan 2021
“Anticipating Land Futures: Stitching Together Black + Native Land Stewardship” @ New Native Theatre | March 2021
“Remembering Technologies // Imagining Futures” @ Good Medicine Festival | Nov 2020
“Futures are Presents: A Workshop to Imagine Cherokee Possibilities” Talk @ Cherokee Nation Community & Cultural Outreach Annual Conference of Community Leaders | July 2019
“From Language Stigma to Language Celebration” Talk @ TedxOU | Jan 2018
“For the Culture: A Crash Course in Community Entrepreneurship” Talk @ Young People For | April 2018
Teaching
Educator & Course Designer @ MEMORY PATTERN | Spring 2024
Teacher’s Assistant @ Reading into the Past/Writing into the Future @ School for Poetic Computation | Spring 2024, Fall/Winter 2022, Spring 2021
Awards
Artist Fellow @ Artists Creative Fund | 2024-2025
“Relationships Matter” award @ Drip | Nominated out of 100 colleagues for exhibiting Drip’s founding principle. | Winter 2021
2nd Place @ Black Girls Code Hackathon | Mentored 12-17 year old aspiring coders who’s concept placed 2nd in their region | Oct 2020
3rd Place & $5,000 award @ Love’s Entrepreneurs Cup | Led a team at a state-wide collegiate business plan competition with 50 competing teams | Spring 2017
Participant & $10,000 convertible note @ Startup Launch Pad | Mentorship program for my startup BLOOM
Named a Power Girl by Seventeen Magazine | March 2016 | Featured in Seventeen Magazine for building lease-swapping platform Roomswap in college
Inaugural Recipient @ Ashlee T. Madison Freedom Scholarship | University of Oklahoma African American Studies | November 2015
Activities
Participant, Expressive Game Design @ School for Poetic Computation | June 2022 | Final Project: Coded a Mvskoke preservation game titled “Oto (Chestnut) Returns”
Participant, INDIGital Coding Bootcamp @ Indigenous Friends Organization | Nov 2020 | Final project: Designed a web project documenting Oklahoma’s land memory.
2nd Place @ Black Girls Code Hackathon | Mentored 12-17 year old aspiring coders who’s concept placed 2nd in their region | Oct 2020
3rd Place & $5,000 award @ Love’s Entrepreneurs Cup | Led a team at a state-wide collegiate business plan competition with 50 competing teams | Spring 2017
Co-Founder/Game Design + Writer for an Indigenous Language Learning Platform called BLOOM | Partnered with Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma | 2016 - 2019
Co-Founded Roomswap, a house lease-swap platform that saved students $100K in rent | 2013-2017