Selected Projects / 2019–Present Research-Led Project Management
Project Managment Experience
I manage interdisciplinary media, research, and cultural projects from early production to final delivery. I have extensive experience in stakeholder coordination, audience research, editorial strategy, and systems management.
01 create/M Mental Health Film Festival
Coordinating the people, deadlines, partnerships, audience development, and production systems behind a three-day mental health film festival and three pre-festival events.
Mandate
Establish a working structure for a growing cultural platform spanning film, art, mental health, and community conversation, while moving the festival from submissions through selection, promotion, production, and delivery.
Responsibilities
- Own the master workback schedule across submission, review, acceptance, promotional, partner, and production milestones.
- Coordinate two interns, two contractors, a five-member planning team, five sponsors, Regal Union Square, three event venues, vendors, and production partners.
- Manage the submission campaign, promotional calendar, sponsor assets, intern assignments, and cross-team approvals.
- Build audience-research and measurement systems, including surveys, campaign tracking, web analytics, and reporting.
- Maintain clear ownership, dependencies, and communication across creative, operational, technical, and partner-facing work.
Systems: Asana / Google Workspace / Squarespace / Google Analytics 4 / FilmFreeway
02 Penn & Slavery Project AR App
Managed the research, content strategy, and interdisciplinary workflow for a location-based augmented-reality interpretation of the Penn & Slavery Project’s archival research.
Mandate
Translate complex archival scholarship into an accessible, location-specific public experience while ensuring that community perspectives informed the project’s content and interaction design.
Responsibilities and outcomes
- Managed project timelines and meeting cadence across faculty, student researchers, developers, library staff, and external consultants.
- Conducted UX, archival, and ethnographic research to identify content priorities and audience needs.
- Organized and facilitated a focus group with 12 Black and Brown Philadelphia residents.
- Translated research findings into six location-based creative briefs for the development team.
- Integrated community feedback into the project’s content and development process.
Practice areas: Content strategy / UX research / Community engagement / Archival interpretation / Cross-functional delivery
03 Power Politics Oral History Project
Coordinated a multiformat oral-history project documenting Black and Latinx strategies for political empowerment in Philadelphia.
Mandate
Develop oral histories into accessible public programming that documented Philadelphia’s political landscape, preserved community knowledge, and shared organizing strategies through screenings, radio, and digital distribution.
Responsibilities and outcomes
- Conducted oral histories, ethnographic interviews, and more than 50 hours of exploratory research on Philadelphia activists.
- Coordinated applications, interviews, onboarding, assignments, and communications for 10 interns, including HBCU outreach.
- Aligned interns, mentors, consultants, community participants, institutional partners, and media collaborators.
- Helped transform the interviews into eight educational community screenings.
- Supported the production and distribution of a 37-episode radio series with WURD Radio.
Practice areas: Oral history / Research coordination / Internship management / Community programming / Public media