About

I am an anthropologist drawn to the textures of the everyday–the rituals, refusals, and creative expressions that shape how we live, remember, and imagine, infinitely.

• How does our connection to the earth encourage artistic exploration and expansion?
• What forms of creativity both generate oppression and liberation?
• What cultural practices remain meaningful in times of uncertainty and injustice?

I am concerned with how personal and collective histories are documented, expressed, and transformed by the world’s most vulnerable. 

 My research into colonization, U.S. foreign policy, and Western bureaucracy revealed patterns I could not unsee: as empires extract land and labor they also discredit indigenous spiritual and cosmological knowledge. Astrology, divination, and the occult have always operated as covert, parallel forms of political intelligence. Reading a spread isn’t separate from that research. It’s a continuation of it.

I am a Black American woman, rooted in Ghana and Ohio, born and raised in Northwest Washington, D.C.

Interests

Blackness Across Borders | Objects & Rituals of Diasporic Memory | Decolonial Pedagogy | Ethnographic Creativity & Expression | Anthropologies of State Power, Bureaucracies, and Global Empires