I am a memory worker, engaged with recorded knowledge to advance justice and equity. I offer personal archives services in NYC helping everyday Black women and families organize estate documents, digitize family photos, and manage legacy materials.

My journey to memory work began on the first day of middle school when a classmate asked, "What are you?" My Southern Black-Caribbean blended family had just moved from culturally diverse Queens, New York City to a predominantly white Long Island suburb. I realized he was probing my proximity to whiteness based on my skin tone. This moment revealed how race, color, and identity are constructed and contested, and how Blackness is both singular and fractured, both shared and specific across the diaspora. This recognition drew me to Black Studies and influenced my decision to attend Howard University.

As a Spanish language and culture major with a psychology minor at Howard, I developed cross-disciplinary training in how race, language, culture, and identity intersect. My undergraduate fieldwork teaching literacy in D.C. Public Schools showed me how Black and Latino children draw on multiple literacies—home languages, cultural narratives, digital storytelling—to make meaning, practices often dismissed but are sophisticated comprehension strategies and tools for resistance. This inspired my career as a school library media specialist, where I have worked to counter how institutions control information access and cultural representation. I curate collections centering marginalized voices and create programs affirming cultural identities. My MSLIS training established advanced research skills—comprehensive search strategies, critical source evaluation, primary source and special collections expertise, and understanding of metadata, cataloging systems, and scholarly communication cycles. I then pursued education policy at Teachers College, Columbia University to understand how systems create unsafe learning spaces and perpetuate inequity.

My approach to memory work is rooted in both the Black Radical Tradition and Black feminist archival practice. The Black Radical Tradition, coined by political theorist and activist Cedric Robinson is “the continuing development of a collective consciousness informed by the historical struggles for liberation and motivated by the shared sense of obligation to preserve the collective being, the ontological totality.” The Black Feminist Archive was founded by anthropologist Irma McClaurin and designed to be a “home” for Black women’s legacies, ensuring the collection, preservation, and safeguarding of everyday Black women’s lives.