Experience
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- Teaching Assistant (Aug 2018 – Present)
Current/Prospective Courses:
“Word and Image”, “Existentialism in Anime”, Intro to Creative Writing - The Bronx Blaqlist (Aug 2013 – July 2018)
Local Artist Collective Organization
Co-founder, Social Media Director, Editorial & Grant Writing - Americans for Jamaicans Foundation (July – Aug 2016)
Charity Organization for Jamaican Organizations/Projects
Grant Writing Intern - Articulate Communications (Aug 2014 – Feb 2016)
Public Relations Agency
Intern
- Teaching Assistant (Aug 2018 – Present)
Education
- Cornell University
MFA (Poetry), 2017 – 2019 - NYU: School of Professional Studies
B.A. in Humanities, May 2017- Creative Writing Club (Secretary)
- Dovetail Literary Journal (Poetry Editor)
- CUNY: Bronx Community College
A.A. in Liberal Arts- Creative Writing Club (President – 2013-2014)
- Inter-Organizational Council (IOC: 2014-2015)
- Thesis Journal (Poetry/Managing Editor: 2013-2014)
Awards/Honors
- The Poetry Project: Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship (2016-2017)
Mentor: Marcella Durand - Academic Honors/Awards
- NYU: University Honors Scholar/Founders’ Day Award
- NYU: Alpha Sigma Lambda
- NYU: Wendy David Scholarship & SPS McGhee Scholarship
- NYU: Dean’s List (2015-2017)
- BCC: Phi Theta Kappa
- BCC: President’s List (2013-2015)
- High School: James Traub NYT Scholarship (2006)
Publications
- Columbia Journal (Dec 2019)
- Black Warrior Review (Fall 2019)
- The Southampton Review (Winter/Spring 2019 issue)
- The Poet’s Country (Jan 2017)
Inaugural 1st Issue - The Poetry Project (Jan 2017)
Website & Newsletter - Dovetail (2015-2017)
New York University (SPS) - Thesis (2013-2015)
Bronx Community College (CUNY)
Workshops
- Cornell Faculty: Joanie Mackowski, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Alice Fulton, Ishion Hutchinson, and Robert Morgan
- Poet’s House | Poetry Workshop: Nick Flynn (June 2017)
- Poetry Workshop: Laura Sims (May-June 2016)
Miscellaneous
- 4th Annual BCC Conference on Community College Excellence (C3E)
Panel Discussion on Preparing Students After Graduation, 2017 - CUNY League of Active Speech Professors (CLASP)
Invited Speaker on “Gun Violence in America”, 2014
Accomplishments
- 2017 Cutbank Chapbook Contest: Honorable Mentions