Co-founded by Justin Laing in 2017, my skills include meeting and event facilitation, workshops connecting race, capitalism, colonialism, and the nonprofit industry, as well as strategy, research, evaluation, and grant writing. Before I started Hillombo, I was a Senior Program Officer for Art and Culture at The Heinz Endowments, and before this, I was the Assistant Director of the African-Brazilian arts organization Nego Gato, Inc. I have a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pittsburgh in Black Studies and Political Science, a Masters in Public Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and I am an initiated Olorisha in the Lukumi tradition. I am also a member of the coordinating committees of the Black Socialist Formation based in Pittsburgh and the National Black Liberation Movement Unity Initiative.