Featured Projects
Projects I am proud of from both my full time and freelance portfolios.
What Folklorists Do
“A comprehensive guide to the range of good work carried out by today's folklorists, What Folklorists Do is essential reading for folklore students and professionals and those in positions to hire them.”
Duke Arts Weekly
A weekly editorial email designed to give readers one-stop access to the best stories and happenings in the arts across Duke.
Art & Artists Are Essential
Campaign to give a platform and voice to Duke artists during COVID-19 and to proudly claim the “human need for art” (April–August 2020).
Resist Covid/Take 6!
RESIST COVID/TAKE 6! emphasized the disproportionate impact of the deadly virus on the lives of communities of color, through large-scale banners and window clings, posters, street signs, and more.
The Art & Alchemy of Repair
The Archie Green Fellowship supports new research documenting occupational folklife—the stories, skills, joys, and challenges of workers—in contemporary America.
Audio Bites for Transplanting Traditions
I designed and led an oral history and storytelling boot camp for the youth program at Transplanting Traditions Community Farm in Chapel Hill, NC.
New Faces of Tradition
In the spring of 2019, I co-led a partnership between Duke Arts and the North Carolina Art Council’s Folklife Program to recruit student and professional volunteer photographers to work collaboratively with emerging traditional artists to create meaningful and useful portraits.
Rubenstein Arts Center Opening Strategy
I led the internal and external brand and communications strategy for the Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke in anticipation of its grand opening
Southern Mix
Southern Mix is an oral history project that is a collaboration between the Carolina Asia Center, the Southern Oral History Program, and the Alumni Council on Racial and Ethnic Diversity at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Making Laos in Morganton
Morganton City Hall invited me to display "Home in a New Place: Making Laos in Morganton, NC" in February and March, 2017.
Unpacking the Past, Designing the Future
This exhibit's neighborhood oral histories and playful imaginings of historical artifacts built community support for the Reuse Arts District by demonstrating the Scrap's commitment to local history.
Carolina Food Summit
In September 2016, EdNC, the Jamie Kirk Hahn Foundation, TerraVita Food and Drink Festival, and the UNC-Chapel Hill "Food For All" academic research theme presented the first-annual Carolina Food Summit.
Fabric of Freedom
Fabric of Freedom was a series of arts programs that celebrated the diversity and cultural history of Greensboro, host city for the National Folk Festival (2015–2017)
UNC Global: Migration Narratives
I supported the “Migration Narratives” exhibition at UNC Global through original research and by contributing my masters thesis research.
Making Laos: Home in a New Place
"Home in a New Place: Making Laos in Morganton, North Carolina,” explores, through the world of one family, how Lao-Americans have crafted their home in a small southern community.