Literary service, selected
Festival Grant FY 2022 Panelist — Arizona Commission on the Arts
Literary Arts FY 2022 Grant Panelist, Literature Translation Fellowships — National Endowment for the Arts
Secondary Advisor — Black Artists and Designers Association
Anthology Committee member —The Watering Hole
Judge — DC Youth Slam 2020, Grand Slam Final
Juror — 2019 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, New York City Writing
Literary panelist — The Shed , 2019 Open Call program
Assistant editor —Cave Canem, Anthologies XIII and IX
Contributor — Library Congress, Office of Publishing
Teaching, selected
Writing Instructor — District of Columbia Public Library (Washington, DC, US)
Writing Instructor — Politics & Prose (Washington, DC, US)
Writing Instructor — Camp Joy (Washington, DC, US)
Writing Instructor — The Virginia G. Piper Center (Phoenix, AZ, US)
Writing Instructor — Twitter & Writers Club (Manhattan, NY, US)
Writing Instructor — The Woman's Poetry Workshop (Manhattan, NY, US)
Writing Instructor — Simon & Schuster (New York, NY, US)
Visiting Writer — St. Francis College (Brooklyn, NY, US)
High School Tutor — El Arranque (Buenos Aires, AR)
Teaching Assistant — Highview Elementary School
Awards/Honors, selected
2022, The Norma Elia Cantú Award in Creative Writing at The University of Texas at San Antonio
2021, Best of the Net, Nomination
2020-2021, Poetry Coalition Fellowship
2018, Willow Arts Alliance, New York City Fellow
2016, Best of the Net, Nomination
2015, Andrea Klein Willison Prize for Poetry
2014, Hurston/Wright Amistad Award for College Writers, Poetry Finalist
Residencies/Fellowships, selected
2019 & 2017, CantoMundo, Columbia University, New York, NY
2017, Callaloo Writing Workshop, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
2015, The Watering Hole, Tapp’s Arts Center Studio, Columbia, SC
2014, VONA/Voices of Our Nation Fellowship, San Francisco, CA
Interviews, selected
Mendez, Jasminne, Interview, Plátano Poetry series, May 2018.
Gaona, Priscilla J. Interview, La Otra Cara Latina, September 2017.
Ben-Oni, Rosebud, Interview, Luna Luna Magazine, June 2014.
Panels, selected
“Being and Justice in Black Poetry: A BreakBeat Poetics Conversation" Denton Black Film Festival, Denton, TX, January 2021
Art as a Release” Refueling for Justice, Elevation Educational Consulting Group presents Refueling for Justice, Washington, D.C., June 2020
“Mess + Process: María Fernanda and Kameelah Janan Rasheed” Kelly Writers’ House, Philadelphia, PA, September 2019
“Inside the Industry” Lincoln Center Education, New York, NY, March 2019
“Writers For Relief” (alongside Esmeralda Santiago) Hudson Valley Writers Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY, November 2017
“Sisterhood Dinner” Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY, December 2017
“La Liga Magazine: En Mi Piel: Colorism and Latinidad” (alongside Ana Castillo) MoMa PS1, New York, NY, September 2017