Projects
Leslie Parker Dance Project Residency - Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC)
Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), Tallahassee, FL
Dance research residency with Leslie Parker Dance Project. Leslie worked alongside collaborators Samantha Mama Diarra Speis, Tenisha George, Dameun Strange, Michael Wimberly, Nioka Workman, Farai Malianga, Sharon Bridgforth, and Naimah Petigny.
March 2023.
Divination Tools: imagine home is co-commissioned by Walker Arts Center (MN), Pillsbury House Theatre (MN), Pangea World Theater (MN), Danspace Project (NYC) and Counterpulse (SF). It has been created in partnership with Northrop, Twin Cities Jazz Festival, The Cedar Cultural Center, TU Dance Center and Barbara Barker Center for Dance.
This project also includes “Call to Remember Essays & Statements on Collaboration, Improvisation, and Black Creative Research” by Leslie Parker including contributions by respected colleagues including Black Feminist Scholar, Educator and Dancer, Naimah Petigny, Parker’s Embedded Writer at MANCC. This publication was commissioned by MANCC in partnership with Walker Art Center.
Linden Place Research Residency, April 2025
In April of 2025, I was a researcher in residence with Linden Place in Bristol, RI., a nonprofit museum built in 1810 by slave trader George DeWolf. Linden Place now serves as a hub for creative writers and researchers seeking to engage the history of slavery and its afterlives.
RISD Gender Studies Salon, April 2025
This 2025 Gender Studies Salon brought together scholars and practitioners in the fields of Feminist Studies, Trans Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Transpersonal Psychology to discuss the history, current life, and future visions of Gender Studies.
Vassar College Queer Oral History Project
From 2012-2014, I was the lead undergraduate researcher of the Vassar College Queer Oral History Project where I conducted over 11 interviews with queer and gender non-confirming alumni and professors. These interview recordings and transcripts are currently held in the Thompson Memorial Library Archives and Special Collections.
Real Cost of Prisons Project
During summer 2013, I worked as an archivist for the Real Cost of Prisons Project, a nationally renowned non-profit working to end the carceral state by connecting researchers and policy makers with women and men directly experiencing the impact of mass incarceration. I analyzed and archived over a decade’s worth of essays, reports, prose, and comics authored by incarcerated activists between 2002-2013. These materials are housed in Special Collections & University Archives at The University of Massachusetts Amherst W.E.B DuBois Memorial Library.
RISD’s Decolonial Teaching in Action - Faculty Pedagogical Development
Decolonial Teaching in Action is a seminar hosted by Social Equity & Inclusion which offers a semester-long, reading group for RISD faculty, librarians, and staff to engage questions of decolonization, power, and pedagogy. This seminar engages the fields of Black Studies, Native Studies, Feminist Studies, and Geography through concepts such as decoloniality, anti-blackness, dispossession, settler colonialism, border imperialism, knowledge production, queerness, and futurity.