Teaching Experience
Harlem Screenwriters Workshop , New York, NY; Member, Workshop Leader; 2004-present
New York University , New York, NY; Adjunct Instructor; 2004-present Course: Lyrics on Lockdown: Using art as a tool for social change. Focuses on the prison industrial complex.
Blackout Arts Collective , New York, NY; Facilitator; 2000 – Present; Workshops: Prison Industrial Complex 101, Arts and Activism
Fletcher-Maynard Academy , Cambridge, MA; Instructor; 1998-1999; Course: Media Literacy and Video Production
Selected Presentations/Talks
Wagner College, The Prison Industrial Complex and the Arts | October 2006. Staten Island, NY |
Cave Canem, Spring Workshop Reading (Workshop Leader, Willie Perdomo) | April 2006. New York, NY |
New York City Office of the Mayor, Haitian Flag Day Celebration | May 2005. New York, NY |
SUNY Albany, Annual Haitian Student Association Gala, Keynote Speaker | April 2005. Albany, NY |
Seton Hall University, Celebrating the Haitian Revolution | March 2004. Seton Hall, NJ |
University of Maryland David E. Driskell Center Haiti Series, Book Reading: revolution|revolusiyon|révoltion | April 2004. College Park, MD |
New York University Exodus And Genesis: Haitian Writers In North America , Institute of African American Affairs | April 2004. New York, NY |
Yale University Klib Kreyol: Haitian Revolution Arts Workshop and Performance | February 2003. New Haven, CT |
Teacher’s College/Columbia University Social Justice Curriculum Fair: Using Art to Teach Social Justice | December 4, 2003. New York, NY |
Critical Resistance Regional Conference: Lyrics on Lockdown: Slamming the Prison Industrial Complex | October 2002, New Orleans, LA |
Publications
Contributer, Searching for America: Essays on Art and Architecture , R. Sheardy, “The Beautiful Side of Ugly: Social Work, Education, Murals and Prisons” Forthcoming by Cambridge Scholars Press
Contributor, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets and Emcees, Lit Noir Publishing, August 2006. (Nominated for a 2007 NAACP Image Award)
“The Beautiful Side of Ugly: Social Work, Education, Murals and Prisons – Models Towards Change.” Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference. Atlanta, GA. April 2006.
Contributor, Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out, Nation Books, November 2005 “Using Art to Interpret and Teach the Haitian Revolution.”
Paper presented at the Haitian Independence Bicentenary Conference: Re-interpreting the Haitian Revolution and its Cultural Aftershocks, 1804-2004. Trinidad, WI. June 2004.
Author/Editor, revolution|revolusiyon|révolition 1804 – 2004: An Artistic Commemoration of the Haitian Revolution, Liv Lakay Publications, January 2004 Arts & Culture Journalist, The Haitian Times, 1999 – 2004 Contributor, Anthology of Haitian Poets In Massachusetts: Assembly of Haitian Artists In Massachusetts, 1998
Magazines/Newspapers : Writer, Stank Magazine, 2002; Contributor, Tanbou Magazine , 2000 – 2001; Film & Television Editor and Writer, Visual Voice Magazine, 2000; Writer, Blackworld Newspaper, 1996-1997
Memberships/Other
Memberships : Blackout Arts Collective, Board Member; YB Literary Foundation, Consultant; Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association; New York University Association of Black Faculty, Staff and Administrators; Golden Key National Honor Society Other : Extensive performance history, extensive visual art exhibition history; curatorial experience
Honors and Awards: Boston University Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Social Work, 2004 NYU Office of Community Service Grant, 2002 One of five nominated for prestigious Boston University School of Social Work Kolodny Award, 1999 Theatre Arts Award Recipient 1997; Studio Arts Award Recipient, 1997