You know the moment.

The day the passwords change. The spreadsheet with everyone’s phone numbers leaves your desktop and starts living somewhere else.

You are no longer steering the ship.

It feels amazing.

It all begins with an idea.

My core research question was simple: why does a high-modernist novel set in Dublin—a novel with zero Black characters—use the N-word so often? Why does an Irish novel contain so many references to American racism and racial iconography?

The answer I arrived at has everything to do with the global cultural imaginary surrounding the United States.

I co-founded the Crown Heights Care Collective in April 2022, four months before I moved out of New York.

I wanted to know if I could create something that held a spark so hot + contagious that others would be able to carry it for years. I am proud that I did.