Selected Work

Rolling Stone

Funkin’ Up Fine Art: The Psychedelic Visions of George Clinton, 2023

Angélique Kidjo and Ibrahim Maalouf on Using Music and Myth to Connect Acros Culture, 2023

LA Times image magazine

Terrace Martin Paints Crenshaw Circle of Love, 2023 [in print Dec. 16, 2023]

Arima Ederra Wants to Be A Vessel For You, 2022 [also in print Oct. 21, 2022, titled “Beautiful Soul”]

HYPERALLERGIC

A Psychedelic Trip Into the Human Body, 2024

Simone Leigh’s Monuments to the Black Femme, 2024

Social Tensions from Antiquity to the End of the World, 2024

Glass House is a Dance of Drama and Domesticity, 2024

Tarot-Inspired Paintings Encapsulate the Latinx Pulse of LA, 2023

A Sci-Fi Opera’s Cosmic Quest for Belonging, 2023

Chloë Bass Disarms With Beauty, 2023

Finding Medea in LA's Chinatown, 2022

What Does it Mean for Heaven to be a Muddy Riverbed?, 2022

Other people (record label)

A Common Misunderstanding of the Speed of Light, 2022

Ski Mag

I Learned to Ski at 29, 2022

Call your girlfriend podcast

Guest Host: So You Want to Change the World?, 2021

Whetstone Magazine

A Sense of Smørrebrød, 2020 (print) *Notable list for Best American Food Writing 2021

Tasting. Notes. Black America, 2021 (print)

SALTY Magazine

This is How the Teeth Sink In, 2020 *NSFW*

OkayPLAYER

aja monet’s “When The Poems Do What They Do” is the Weighted Blanket We All Need, 2023

Sampa the Great on Building Bridges Across Generations with Angélique Kidjo, 2022

Robert Glasper on Juneteenth and Healing Through Music, 2022

Five Great Memoirs By People of Color Released in 2022, 2022

Other Worldly, 2022

8 Contemporary Black Artists You Should Know About on International Women’s Day, 2022

How Sci-Fi & Fantasy Author Cadwell Turnbull Pulls From the Horrors of Real Life, 2021

‘Liner Notes’ Corrects Black Women’s Exclusion from Popular Music, 2021

Meet Omar Tate: The Chef Making Dishes Inspired by Jazz, Hip-Hop & Black Literature, 2020

REDBULL

Nero the Professor is Leading with Intention, 2022

Angyil Finds a New Sense of Self in ‘No Love Lost’ Video, 2021

Meet NEFER, a Movement with a Global Outlook, 2021

Beyond Dance with Dassy, 2021

Get to Know: ArrrtAddict AKA Lisette Correa, 2021

architectural digest

Paul R. Williams: Behind the Mastery of the Master Architect, 2021

Inside the Renaissance and Future of Stained Glass, 2020

Bandcamp

On ‘The Sun’, Raashan Ahmad Travels the World, 2019

Ivorian Singer Antoinette Konan is the “Queen of the Ahoko”, 2019

THE ADVOCATE

An Exploration of Queer Jamaican Identity — And Lots of Food, 2019

OkayAfrica 

Pelé’s Daughter is Making a Documentary About Women’s Soccer Around the World, 2019

The Designer Reinventing Nigerian Workspaces, 2019

Meet the Women Behind Tunisia’s All Female DJ Academy, 2019

Meet the Vanguard of Contemporary Egyptian Jazz, 2019

The Ugandan Street Food Thriving in Denmark, 2018

Alexandre Francisco Diaphra is the Portuguese Music Revival, 2018

Respect Your Elders: Portrait of My Father, 2017

Why I Africa: On Traveling While African, 2016

Meet the Panstula Stilt Walkers Challenging South Africa's Biggest Arts Festival, 2016

Creative Nestlings: How One South African Company is Changing the Creative Game on the Continent, 2016

Meet iQhiya: An All-Female Art Collective from South Africa, 2016

Ogojiii Magazine: Rethinking Design & Innovation from a Pan-African Perspective, 2016

Noisey by vice

Interview with DJ Crew Apeiron, 2015

Spotlight VEGA: Copenhagen's Unexpected Non-Profit Culture Hub, 2015

Spotlight Global: Denmark's Best Kept Secret, 2015

Jazzhouse: The One Jazz Venue as Punk as Jazz Should Be, 2015

Essays featured in Books

On the Role of the Diaspora published in We Will Lead Africa (2017)

On pacing through self doubt published in What it Takes (2018)