Hi. I’m Doc.
I’m a mixed media documentarian.
My roots in documentation began early. In my youth, writing poetry, participating in city-wide arts programs, and performing in community talent shows became a means of capturing, sharing, and expressing ideas about the cultural and social environments I was raised in.
I document by any means necessary.
As an undergrad, I majored in Journalism and minored in Theatre. Interviewing, curating photo stories, writing scripts, performing in oratory competitions, storytelling, and performing poetic monologues were my favorite tools for collecting memories and knitting them together into specific and intentional points of view.
During my graduate studies, I was trained in ethnography, autoethnography, performance art, Black performance, Black drama, Black political theory, narrative performance, cultural studies, intercultural and interpersonal communication. I developed my own theories of ethnographic dramaturgy, revolutionary womanism, and performative decolonization as methods of freeing myself from intellectual historicide.
Today, I consider myself a Critical Creative maker who documents cultural and social transformations through investigations of the self.
As an artist, an academic, and an advocate my methods are rooted in both power and possibility.
