The passion within my work stems from the belief in everyone having a story, everything having a meaning, and every experience serving a purpose. While I most recently honed in on my artistry over the past three years, my background in higher education and academia has seamlessly integrated into several of my projects I’ve managed to successfully complete within a short amount of time.

The thread that unifies all of my work and the basis behind my involvement with this work is creating a visual platform to shed light on overlooked/marginalized people, places and spaces. From historically Black communities within the region that have been displaced and/or divested in to stopping random people on the street and learning their stories about first times, grief, and healing.

Regardless if your preference is quantitative or qualitative, we are all visual learners. Images are used to provide an example of content provided in textbooks, videos are used to guide lecture in classrooms and our thumbs scroll repetitively through social media because of our innate desire for content. I keep this concept at the forefront of mind when creating and capturing stories.

Our day today is consumed with superficial images and content and with each photo story or short documentary I create, I work to bring humility and a deeper sense of humanity to shared platforms. Despite what is going on in the world from politics to entertainment, people do care about other people and care to hear their stories. If nothing else, I care - to a fault.

My overarching goal with my work is to humanize the everyday lived experience. Our society is increasingly judgemental towards others plight not knowing that many of us - regardless of race, ethnicity, age, gender, etc - are one life circumstance away from sharing a humbling story with the very people, places, and spaces we judge. I want people to see my images and see my films and it brings them to a place of remembrance or familiarity with something else in their lives; My work reminds them of someone they know or an experience they’ve once had.

This is the way that I practice social work, non-traditional be that as it may. The overarching goal of practicing social work is to help mitigate the social ills of the world and with every snap of my camera and every video I produce, direct, edit and upload, I do and will continue to do just that. If nothing else, my work is the cilantro of the world. A sprinkle of cilantro makes everything better.