Project management

Working within and adjacent to academic institutions in arts and humanities programming, I aim to honor two impulses: to affirm the validity of arts practice and humanities scholarship as their own unique forms of research and intellectual investigation, and to situate these zones of activity among other disciplines and ways of knowing. This interdisciplinary orientation also trained me in every aspect of arts and public humanities project management: initial research, liaison and collaboration with campus and community partners, residency design and execution, event production, and post-event reflection/recalibration.

I am especially interested in “slow programming”: fewer, deeper, and more sustainable collaborations.

I focus on co-constructing context-building encounters and events that honor the nuances of place and craft and the expertise of their stewards; that aim toward reciprocity between and intermingling of “artist” or “scholar” and “audience” or “participant”; and that generously invite interconnectivity between the personal and the political.

Duke Performances and the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts, Duke University

Dance and Theater: Camille A. Brown & Dancers, American Ballet Theatre Main Company & Studio Company with Stefanie Batten Bland, Company SBB, Urban Bush Women, Bijayini Satpathy, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, BalletX, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo; collaborations with Duke’s MFA in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis students and faculty

Music: Imani Winds, Alex Sopp, Habibi, Waxahatchee; collaborations with Duke’s Music Composition PhD students and faculty

Multidisciplinary: Tift Merritt and Allison Russell (in collaboration with the Forum for Scholars and Publics)

Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University

Kenan/Center for Documentary Studies Visiting Writers Series in Documentary Ethics: Eula Biss and Leslie Jamison

Ethics Film Series (with Duke University’s Screen/Society): “The New South,” “Ethics and Sound”

Ethics Staff Book Clubs, with invited guest Teju Cole