Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence

Engagement Lab

Co-founder and Lead Project Manager
2022 - Present

Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence (TNGV) is a collaborative initiative which seeks to disrupt harmful narratives about gun violence and co-create art and media interventions to uplift community-based solutions for peace and justice. Through TNGV, students, faculty, artists, and media-makers work alongside communities most impacted by violence using collaborative methods of design and storytelling. TNGV has created over a dozen art and media artifacts.

Services: Facilitation & Experience Design, Strategic Planning & Program Design

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Violence Intervention & Prevention

Boston Project Ministries

Consultant
2025 - Present

I am working with Boston Project Ministries to develop a logic model to guide their implementation as a new City of Boston Violence Intervention and Prevention (VIP) grant recipient. The program aims to strengthen communities’ ability to prevent violence using community engagement and action.

Services: Strategic Planning & Program Design

Making Youth Voices Heard

Emmanuel Gospel Center

Consultant
2018

A Youth Participatory Action Research project to address rising violence in the Lower Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. This project equipped 11 youth to design and implement a research project to understand opinions and experiences of residents related to education, poverty, drugs, violence, and employment in their community. Youth researchers developed a set of recommended solutions, which they presented to the broader community. After being trained in the YPAR approach, this group continued their research the following year.

Services: Participatory Action Research

Youth Hub Boston

Founder and Director
2014 - 2017

A neighborhood-based initiative supporting, equipping, and empowering youth as changemakers. Launched out of a community planning process with a vision to dramatically improve youth employment outcomes, Youth Hub applied youth participatory action research methods to understand complex issues related to youth success and to co-create solutions. Youth Hub engaged over 600 youth through youth-led research, career-readiness cohorts, workshops, job fairs, and more. As a result of this work, I was awarded a Neighborhood Hero award from ABCD, and was invited to speak at the 2015 URBAN Research-Based Action Network National Convention.

Youth Hub sparked many more organizations to apply participatory action research methods to empower youth and residents as leaders.

Services: Participatory Action Research, Strategic Planning & Program Design

Community Violence Intervention