Select Press
“D.C.’s Queer Community Has Always Been Dancing. Venues Are Finally Catching Up”, Washington City Paper, June 2023
“DJ Natty Boom wants you to feel ‘seen, and centered, and beautiful’”, Washington Post, June 2022
““Where’s the DJ?” How Women DJs in D.C. Are Shaking Up the Scene”, Smithsonian Festival Blog, December 2019
Select Honors
Urban Land Institute Washington, Leadership Institute, 2023
Association for Community Design, Fellow, 2019
DC Public Library, Oral History Collaborative, Grantee, 2019
National Endowment for the Arts, Our Town Design Grant, Panelist, 2019
White House LGBTQ Tech + Innovation Summit, Participant, 2015
Select Projects
Oral history collection and Podcast production as part of a land use analysis (Washington, DC)
Wayfinding design project management (Washington, DC)
Interactive sculptures installed along streetscape through Public Art Building Communities grant (Washington, DC)
Westchase Livable Centers Study (Houston, TX), 2019 Texas ASLA Merit Award
Connect Community: A Revitalization Plan for Gulfton-Sharpstown (Houston, TX), 2019 Texas APA Advancing Diversity & Social Change Award
Homewood Comprehensive Community Plan (Pittsburgh, PA)
Alignment of Public Incentives for Strategic Outcomes (New Orleans, LA), adopted by the City of New Orleans
Speaking Engagements
ULI Washington and Q City Present: A Conversation on Queer Nightlife Spaces in DC," Panel moderator, 2023
Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage, DC: The Social Power of Music, “First Ladies to Anthology of Booty: Women’s DJ Collectives in the District of Columbia,” Panelist, 2019
Princeton University Women’s Center, “Building Community Spaces through Music and Dance,” Speaker, 2019
AIA Public Interest Design Institute, “Planning and its Impact of Equity,” Panelist, 2017
Workshops
Design Futures, “Black and Brown in the Workplace,” 2018
Allied Media Conference, Design Justice Track Coordinator, 2018