Peer Reviewed Articles
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Winner: 2025 Clyde Woods Graduate Student Paper Award, Black Geographies Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers
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Building on visual studies, cultural studies, and Black geographic theory, I analyze a set of images produced by photographic journalists in Oakland covering the crisis of homelessness in the city. I show how aesthetic techniques in these images, such as framing, scale, color, contrast, and shape construct an artificial sense, a forced perspective, of the inevitability of Black unbelonging and white normativity in space. Put in larger historical contexts of Black displacement in the city, I show how visual-spatial strategies form technologies of racial governance in cities.
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Chair. “Oakland as Subject and Setting: Doing Black Geographies in Place”
Panel. Black Geographies Specialty Group, American Association of
Geographers Conference.
“Racial-Aesthetic Regimes and the Politics of Place n Berkeley, California”
(2026). Paper Presentation: The City as Archive, Archive as Method Panel.
American Association of Geographers Conference.
“Framing Displacement: Visual Geographies, Black Geographies, and the Crisis
of Homelessness in Oakland.” (2025) Paper Presentation: Critical Geographies of
Representations Panel. American Association of Geographers Conference.
Organizer & Panelist. “Geographic Filmmaking Methodologies of Care.” American Association of Geographers 2025 Conference, Film Geographies Section.
“Working with Film and Visual Media” Invited Speaker. Anticolonial Lab.
University of California, Berkeley
“Housing is a Human Right” (2024). Screening of Film – Work in Progress
Review. Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual International Conference,
Film Geographies Section.
“Documentary Filmmaking and Archival Practice.” Archive of Urban Futures
Summer Institute, Panelist and Featured Filmmaker. Oakland Museum of
California.
Archives of Urban Futures Research Symposium, University of California,
Berkeley.
Invited Speaker – Labor Center class: Field Study in Community and Labor
Organizing: “Collaborative Filmmaking.”
“The Archive of Urban Futures” UC Berkeley Geography Colloquium. Paper and
film presentation with Dr. Brandi Summers and juleon robinson.
“Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows: Applying for Grants and Funding.”
Invited talk by Emory MMUF Program.
“The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Application.”
Invited talk by Emory National Scholarships and Fellowships Program.
“Six recent Emory College alumni awarded NSF Graduate Fellowships” Emory
News Center, April Hunt.
(https://news.emory.edu/stories/2019/05/er_nsf_fellowship/campus.html).
“50 Shades of Latinx: Environmental Racism.” Emory Climate Organization and
Lamda Theta Alpha Latina Sorority, Emory University. Panel Discussion.
“Unequal Burdens: Neoliberalism, Colorblindness, and Perceptions of Climate
Change in Atlanta, GA.” Emory Climate Analysis and Solutions Team Research
Symposium, Emory University. Paper Presentation.
“Unequal Burdens: Neoliberalism, Colorblindness, and Perceptions of Climate
Change in Atlanta, GA.” Emory Sustainability Roundtable. Paper Presentation.
“The Soft Hand of Capital.” American Association of Geographers Annual
Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts. Paper co-presentation with D. Shannon.
“COP21 to Campus: Leading Student Engagement with Climate Change.”
Georgia Campus Sustainability Network, Emory University. Panel Discussion.
Climate Leadership Summit. Georgia State University. Panel Discussion.
“Environmental and Climate Justice at COP21.” Guest lecturer for Sociology of
Environmental Justice class.
“What’s Next? Local to Global Perspectives on COP21.” Georgia State
University. Panel Discussion.