I have long been committed to developing public humanities projects supporting ongoing struggles for social justice with historically grounded research. Through mentoring younger colleagues and students into and through graduate, I developed and now maintain the most extensive list of fully funded MA programs in the humanities.
In 2020, I was one of the core organizers in Mutual Aid NYC, where I helped support the growth of the mutual aid movement and developed a list of accessible resources for people in need in uptown Manhattan. Together with students at NYU and a colleague at Fordham University, I co-developed notariot.com, that introduced moderates to the black radical tradition. This page received tens of thousands of visitors, was used in college courses, and was featured in local news. Out of this work, I co-developed presentations on the histories of local police precincts (and their disproportionate targeting of Black and Brown neighbors), and co-produced an explainer video on the history of Mutual Aid organizing that has been viewed over 1000 times and has been presented in a range of trainings for mutual aid organizers across the nation.
Additionally, I have helped facilitate an oral history project of Bronx-based Mutual Aid organizers and have spent time as a core organizer and facilitator of a feminist collective developing an online archive of organizing resources together with organizers and archivists across New York City and as a tenant-leader in my building’s tenant association and in neighborhood-based organizing.
