I study how the past governs the present.

I'm an undergraduate at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, pursuing a B.A. in Political Science with a major in Philosophy, a minor in Sociology, and a Pre-Law Certificate (expected May 2028). Before UAH, I earned an A.S. in General Education with a Sociology concentration from Calhoun Community College.

My research lives in public history — particularly slavery, memory, and place. As a student researcher on UAH's Avalon project, I worked in local archives documenting the plantation and the enslaved people connected to the land the university now occupies, preparing data for the Locating Slavery's Legacies database.

That archival habit now runs through everything I do: a 185-episode public education series in development, The Counter-Archive; policy and demographic research for a state legislative campaign; and practical tools for other researchers in the shop.

Before returning to school, I spent years as an independent photographer serving 200+ clients, as a community outreach coordinator, and as an advocate for children in the child-welfare system — work that taught me how institutions actually touch people's lives.

Next stop: a joint JD/MA program, where I plan to keep asking how law remembers — and what it owes.

• Slavery by Another Name — Douglas A. Blackmon
• Medical Apartheid — Harriet A. Washington
• Stamped from the Beginning — Ibram X. Kendi
• The Souls of Black Folk / Black Reconstruction in America — W.E.B. Du Bois
• The Shock Doctrine — Naomi Klein
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa — Walter Rodney
• Sources of the Self — Charles Taylor

I also draw on coursework readings and material discussed on my Substack.

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