Hello! I am a Philadelphia, USA-based researcher, cultural producer, and community archaeologist. I’m interested in the cross-sections of multi-modal archaeology, art, technology, cultural heritage, activism, and liberation. I currently do freelance work in the realm of community media, art, and storytelling. Some of my current projects include developing art & activism workshops with archives, building a catalog and digital archive with Paul Robeson House & Museum here in Philadelphia, and helping advance community digital media skills and engagement at Scribe Video Center. In my cultural heritage efforts as a self-described Memory Worker I center community engagement and agency.
I discovered African Digital Heritage when I was graduating with my undergraduate degree in archaeology and digital humanities in 2019. I had been working in a museum, and wanted to consider how my own Luo heritage is perceived in the collection’s records. Finding terminology like “British East Africa” and shuffling through other inadequate data sets set me on a path of seeking out liberatory cultural heritage efforts in Kenya. This is when I ran into African Digital Heritage and started a dialogue with Chao Tayiana.
I got to visit Nairobi and help facilitate digitization workshops at the Culture Grows symposium in early 2020.
I am excited about continuing to help ADH from across the Atlantic, by providing my skills as the Digitization Specialist, and helping build an international dialogue around increasing access to cultural and digital heritage skills and projects.
