I am a PhD candidate in Information Studies at UCLA, where I am also pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities. Working at the intersection of critical archival studies, critical prison studies, and digital humanities, my research looks at how memory work about incarceration helps communities imagine and enact non-carceral futures.At UCLA, I work with the Community Archives Lab and teach in the Community and Engagement and Social Change program. I have a worked as a community and labor organizer, oral historian, and an archivist. Outside of the academy and the archive, I am involved in abolitionist movement work and create art about public history, memory, and liberation.A plaque I created honoring those killed by the police in Connecticut, which I installed on a monument stone in Chatham Square in New Haven, CT. The memorial had been left blank after the original plaques were stolen. My memorial only remained in situ for a short time before being removed.
