MLK Memorial Library, Washington DC

community designer/researcher

Communities already hold the truest, most useful stories of themselves. My work is coauthorship: building alongside communities so their stories become exhibitions, publications, plans, and futures they recognize as their own.

I'm co-founder of In Good Company, a community design studio built on coauthorship. We make exhibitions and publications, run community consultations, and practice collective futuring with the institutions and neighborhoods we serve — planning the future with communities instead of for them.

Up from the People: honouring legacy at the MLK Jr. Library

Co-design and prototyping of every element of exhibit design with long-time Black residents, youth, artists, and activists across DC.
Outcomes include a final exhibit celebrating local figures, authored by the community it celebrates, in the DC Public Library's main branch.
Martin Luther King Jr. Library, DC Public Library main branch, Washington, DC. [9 months]