Projects
Completed for the course, Visual Culture, Race & Gender, a 300 level lecture and discussion. Students evaluated how constructions of race and sexual differentiation played out across art history and visual culture, specificially focusing on the visual arts of Western Europe and the United States.
The Constructed Black Male - How Fictitious Stereotypes Inform The Reality of American Cinema
An interdisciplinary project completed for my senior thesis in the Africana Studies field. This paper examined the issues of mental healthcare accessibility within the Black-American community, and utilized Schenectady County as a case study.
The Contemporary Mental Health Crisis: Empowering Schenectady’s BIPOC Community Through Culturally-Competent Interventionism
Completed in my Sophomore Research Seminar course, The Politics of Free Speech in the U.S. and Abroad. Students explored key differences in the way speech is protected in the U.S. and several other countries, in addition to looking at a variety of case studies on the matter.
Resistance Through Rhythm: Political Wokeness and its Contentious Relationship With Black-American Protest Music
- Visual compilation of my 2024 Summer Voyage project on mental health accessibility with the Obama Foundation.