For twenty years across culture, communications, civic life, and senior institutional advisory, I've worked with cultural and creative leaders to think more clearly about who they are, how they see the world, and how to communicate both with greater authenticity and precision.
I have always worked holistically and from the impact, outward: clarifying how an individual or organization creates and sustains meaning true to its communities, then translating that into communications, content, and presence that is consistent, elevated, and gets to the heart of the work.
Based between New York and Dakar, I move between cultural strategy and aesthetics, counsel, curation, and the design of spaces that hold beauty, depth, and meaning.
Two decades in culture, communications & institutional advisory begin.
Starts ElevenThirtySix — a cultural practice for institutions and brands.
Opens Galerie36, a contemporary African art house in Dakar.
Launches my podcast, now titled Foundational, and Works in Progress.
Academy36, a digital academy for creative leadership. Opening soon.
Advising a select number of institutions and brands each year.
The four ways of knowing it takes to build a body of work, and a life, that is unmistakably your own.
Reading the shifts that determine how work is received, anticipating emerging expectations, and how meaning is formed in public life.
The discernment to center beauty, depth, and form, and to design presence that is elevated, coherent, and true.
Using new tools with intention, as a creative collaborator that extends the work without flattening the voice inside it.
The work beneath the work: knowing yourself as your greatest creative asset, and leading from that as the foundation for all your work.
Selected partners include The Africa Center, International Center of Photography, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, A+E Networks, Socrates Sculpture Park, MAP Fund, Cave Canem, Dance NYC, The Laundromat Project, Museum Hue, Sony Pictures, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, Japan Society, and the New York Public Library.
Strategic counsel for the institutions and brands shaping global cultural life. Promote, preserve, present — narrative architecture, institutional positioning, and leadership voice.
A contemporary art house rooted in Dakar and open to the world — presenting African and diasporic artists through exhibitions, conversations, and gatherings.
A digital academy for creative leadership, grounded in the four intelligences. The full stack for the person inside the work — a creative life, on your own terms.
Long-form essays on culture, creativity, and how we choose to live and lead.
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I work with a small number of institutions and brands each year through ElevenThirtySix. If you're navigating a strategic question and this work resonates, I'd welcome the chance to speak.
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