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Publications & Exhibitions:
     our weary talons; chapbook (Foglifter Press 2023)
     Congo, seen from the heavens, Okra & I’ll do it; poems (EcoTheo Review 2022)
     portrait of Lubumbashi, DRC & psalm for the 15 million, poems (Rappahannock Review 2021)
     Golden, Solo Show, commissioned by Root Slam (MLK Cafe, 2018)
     Disorder, Collaborative Show (Sun Gallery 2016)
     Memories of nobody, short story (Berkeley Fiction Review, 2017)
     To You: In the tradition of izibongo, prose (UC Berkeley Arts and Research Center 2020)
     Cadenza, composition, for Dennis Kim (debut Soka Performing Arts Center 2020)
     An Old Hymn, composition (debut UC Berkeley 2019)

Awards & Fellowships:
     Winner, Evaristo Prize for African Poetry (African Poetry Book Fund 2023)
     Winner, Start a Riot! chapbook contest (Foglifter Press 2023)
     Starshine and Clay Fellowship (Cave Canem + EcoTheo Review 2022)
     Brooklyn Poets Summer Fellowship (Brooklyn Poets 2021)
     Poetry and the Senses Fellowship (UC Berkeley Arts and Research Center 2019-2020)
     Residency with Shahzad Ismaily (Atlantic Center for the Arts 2021)
​     Grand-slam champion, (Oakland Poetry Slam 2018)
     1st place, Sudden Fiction Contest (Berkeley Fiction Review 2017)
     Key-note speaker, Houston Arts for Recovery Innovation Expo & Symposium (2017)
     Semi-Finalist, Cave Canem Poetry Prize (2021)
     Semi-Finalist, National Federation of State Poetry Societies 2022)
     Feature, Foglifter Intergenerational Reading (2021)
     Feature, Quiet Lightning (2017)
     Feature CalSLAM (2017)
     Best-writing as a team, College Union Poetry Slam Invitational

Career & Experience:
    
Creative writing teacher, Leap Arts Education
     Teaching Artist, Youth Arts Exchange
     Emerging Poet Mentor, Youth Speaks
     Judge, Alameda Youth Poet Laureate
     Judge, Oakland Youth Poet Laureate
     Publication's Coordinator, Berkeley Student Cooperative
     Team member: 1x Brave New Voices, 2x College Union Poetry Slam Invitational
     Affiliate Partner​, Twitch
     Art Teacher, UC Berkeley Splash​
     Artist intern, East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative
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