Writing Portfolio

Collaboratively created in community, I was honored to a co-author of the Principles of Anti-Oppressive Community Engagement for University Educators and Researchers. In response to community feedback, these principles are a living, ever-evolving document designed to reduce harm caused by higher educational research in marginalized communities. With it, we continue to hold institutions accountable. 

In the Fall of 2021, I created an independent study for myself entitled, The Fundamentals of Praxis. Over the course of four months, this class systemically investigated a simple premise: If I freed myself from all the systems of oppression that I exist under, what would my life look like? How do I get free? The syllabus is linked above. 

In the process of unpacking and deconstructing my entire life, I found myself writing Love Letters to everyone who helps me engage in my loving, liberatory praxis. In this short blog post, I tenderly recount my love for a dear friend of my whom I affectionately refer to as Malcolm X. 

In the Spring of 2020, I was asked to create a panel and host a presentation on any relevant emerging topic within the American Sign Language interpreting field. A written investigation of said presentation is captured above. 

Undertaken as a final project for a non-profit communications course, I created a mock communications strategy for the non-profit Family Independence Initiative (FII). This report highlights the organizations strengths and potential growth positions.

Created as a follow-up to Intersectionality and the Deaf Consumer my senior thesis investigated how BIPOC interpreters view themselves and their role in the movement towards Deaf Liberation. 

Above is a research proposal looking into equitable approaches that increase literacy rates among low income Black Deaf children. 

As a final reflection project for a deeply impactful Food Justice and Community Development course I took, I decided to write a script for a short demonstrating my understanding of the moral complexities of the food system and how we can go about fixing them. This creative take was heavily inspired by a show that perfectly tackles emotionally exhausting, philosophically taxing, and morally consequential material: The Good Place.