CV
Education
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Leadership Certificate in Arts Management
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York, JD
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, MFA in Writing
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, BA magna cum laude in English and Rhetoric
▪︎ Dean’s List ▪︎ Phi Beta Kappa ▪︎J. Kerker Quinn Rhetoric Award ▪︎ American Academy of Poets Prize
Projects
The Pocho Project (DRAMATURG/WRITER/Co-PRODUCER)
Performances: Lied Center, KS (2018); Dovetail Studios, Chicago (2019)
Film Project: Nine Traquero Tales (2020)
Partially funded by ArtPlace America; KU Research Excellence Grant
Performing Home (CURATOR/PRODUCER)
Links Hall, Chicago (2017)
Partially funded by Illinois Humanities; Partner program of the Chicago Architecture Biennial
The Anti-Inauguration: An Emergency Cabaret (CURATOR/PRODUCER)
High Concept Labs at Mana Contemporary Chicago (2017)
body ± New Works in Dance and Technology (CURATOR/PRODUCER)
High Concept Labs at Mana Contemporary Chicago (2016)
The Sun King, Elements Contemporary Ballet (TEXT CONTRIBUTOR/DRAMATURG CONSULTANT)
Premiere: Pritzker Paviliion (2014). Studebaker Theater (2016]
human, next: a performance for dancers, projection, and video monitors (DRAMATURG/TOURING MANAGER)
James Moreno + Benjamin Rosenthal (Lawrence, KS)
NYC Premiere: the CURRENT SESSIONS: Volume 4, Issue I (2014)
Chicago Premiere: High Concept Labs at Mana Contemporary Chicago (2016)
Self-Deportation: The Untold Tale of a Marginal Woman (Film Short) (CO-PRODUCER)
Chicago premiere: Facets Cinematheque (2015)
NYC premiere: Anthology Film Archives (2015)
Film Festivals: CreActive International Film Festival; Blow-Up Arthouse Film Festival
Videodrunk (Toronto) - Intertoto Prize; Pineapple Underground Film Festival (Hong Kong)
Mosaic World Film Festival; Korea Expat Film Festival (South Korea)
CineBodega Film Festival; DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival; Ithaca Pan Pacific American Film Festival; ABSINTHE Pop Art; Speechless Film Festival
(Partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council)
Mojo Hobo: The Video (Music video) (PRODUCER/ASS'T DIRECTOR)
Film Festivals: North Portland Unknown Film Festival/Unknown TV
Chicago premiere: Liars Club (2014)
Other Relevant Professional Experience
High Concept Labs
Board Member (2022-present)
Institutional Incubation Program Member (2016-2017)
UIC School of Law, Chicago, IL (Contract Prof.)
Courses: “Images of Law in Film”; “Law & Culture”; “Legal Writing”
Facets Film School, Facets Multimedia, Chicago, IL (Instructor, 2006, 2008)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Lecturer: “Writing About Film”; “Creative Writing I,” “Verse Writing,” “Theories of Law, Theories of Film”
Director of Research: Black Periodical Literature Project (Henry Louis Gates Jr., Dir.)
Publications
"Moved by a Motion Not its Own: Some Notes on Dance in Film," Facets Cinematheque Blog (Mar. 2015)