Writing
Camden: An Equity Agenda
This plan was the final deliverable for a First-Year planing workshop. This Equity Plan analyzes the city of Camden, NJ to identify the strengths and opportunities upon which neighborhoods could capitalize. The plan aims to create an equity of opportunity through the localization of resources, particularly in the areas that demonstrate the highest need and are afflicted most by social, economic, political, and environmental issues. Part of my role was to conduct demographics research, create graphics to communicate information, and develop strategies involving placemaking, resource localization, and issues of policing in the city.
On Empathy : Pain, Perspective, and the Right to the City
This essay discusses Empathy in an American Urban Context. An attempt was made to redefine normative understandings of dominant and counter-narratives, to flip which narratives are negatively defined against the other, to redefine a right to the city, and to assert my lived experience as a bi-racial american.
On Being Homeless in Kennedy Plaza
This report was created in concert with the Downtown Providence Park Conservancy and the course ANTH 1236: Anthropology in and of the City with Professor Rebecca Carter at Brown University. The course was an in-depth exploration of the history, practice, and concepts of urban anthropology, providing students the opportunity to act as urban anthropologists themselves. As part of the “Engaged Scholarship” program at Brown University run by the Swearer Center, the course had an interactive component in which students were invited to apply their knowledge of urban anthropological methods to the study of the local community. I authored the section, "On Being Homeless in Kennedy Plaza."