Spring brought two graphic artists to campus: Kyle Baker (whose book NAT TURNER is widely taught); and Keith Knight (creator of popular comic strips the Knight Life, (th)ink, and the KChronicles).
[more]I wrote my senior thesis on Nigeria: The Emerging Giant (or something like that). On graduation all I wanted to do was to go to Nigeria, and the Peace Corps became my vehicle for doing just that @ St. Michaels College in Oleh via Ughelli in what was then the Mid West State of Nigeria. For 2 years I was the history teacher, coach (soccer, bball, athletics etc.), and general gadfly breaking old Brit rules of education along with my PC roommate for about 300 mostly quite motivated but poorly "educated" male Nigerian primary school teachers.
[more]After graduating from Dartmouth I went on a one-year fellowship study in London, England, studying the Nigerian design diaspora there and a year later worked as a programmer and educator at the Brooklyn Museum. While working at the Brooklyn Museum, my previous background in African and African American Art from courses I took at Dartmouth and professors I worked closely with was incredibly useful. Now I am currently in my second year of a PhD program in Communications, where I am studying African futurism and environmental sustainability whilst furthering myself as a designer.
[more]After graduating from Dartmouth with the class of 2013, I began working with the SEAD, stepping into their new College Pathway Coordinator role. As my first full-time position, it was a great opportunity to build the foundation for us to meet the students' needs around college access and success. Seven years of Hanover, however will make you restless. I decided to move back to my hometown of Harlem, NYC as a college and career advisor for KIPP NYC charter school network.
[more]"I am a 2013 graduate of Dartmouth College and African and African-American Studies major originally from Charlotte, NC. At Dartmouth, I chaired the Black Underground Theater Association, was the 2013 Dodd Playwright Awardee, and the inaugural recipient of the William Cook-Louise Cook Jacobs Award. I am a producer, playwright, and actress and worked as an artist and administrator with Northern Stage Theater in White River Junction, VT before starting my Masters in International Education at UNC Chapel Hill.
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