Our Work
Yes, our work.
Here is where you can see the work we are collaborating on or completed together. Empowerment requires collaboration.
The Project Table
In my home, all of our projects and ideas live on a long black rectangular table that we affectionately call "The Project Table." When projects are completed or ideas come to full fruition, we remove them, clean the table, and add the next one. Below is my online project table where you can see the latest projects I am working on.
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When I Glow Up 2.0
is the second installment of the annual new school year prep extravaganza. The founder Jazz and a team of creative designers, project managers (me via HIDL), organizers, and artists are collaborating right now to launch WIGU 2.0 in August.
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Journal Publication
In the Learning Strategy Lab, we turned our evaluation of a non-profit training into a paper that is being reviewed for publication for the Performance Improvement Journal.
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Intersections Zine Publication
Olivia Hunte, the founder of the Intersections Zine, invited me to submit a creative writing piece on crafting salves for healing. Publication is in process for Spring.
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Go Ask Halah
As an academic advisor for high ed., I consis-tently witnessed academia gate keep resources from students when they could not afford to be a student or chose to leave school. So, I created Go Ask Halah, a professional advising service, to make high quality advising accessible to any adult (18+).
2020S
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When I Glow Up (Project Management)
Photo of the event and some of the organizers.
In the summer of 2023, I had a blast using my HIDL consultancy to project manage and strategize for the When I Glow Up: Back-to-School Extravaganza event in Denver!
Jazmond, the founder of When I Glow Up, collaborated with me, Diana (creative designer), Nneka (Nail Artist), Mish (Photographer), Green Spaces (Location - Shared Workspaces), and many others to bring her ideas and goals to life in approximately 6 weeks from idea conception.
All of the children and youth at the event were gifted unique hair styles or hair cuts, manicures, yoga, food, bags of groceries, school supplies, bookbags, plants, toys, clothes and so much more! May the children and youth who participated in the event continue to glow throughout the school year. I'm looking forward to next year's When I Glow Up event!
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Needs Assessment
In the spring of 2023, while completing my MS degree, I worked on a team of instructional designers, psychological safety experts, and policy writers to conduct a needs assessment for a national laboratory in the American West.
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The subject matter experts at the lab told us the organization's main feedback mechanism needed to be updated to increase its usage and validity. After we analyzed the "need" using tools such as the Needs Assessment Planning Table (NAPT), HPT Performance Improvement Model, Gilbert's BEM, and Rumler & Brache's Nine Box model, we discovered that the feedback mechanism did not need to be updated (its was working fine). Instead, there was an opportunity (could be better) to update the feedback mechanism to maximize its benefits. Based on our analysis, we proposed 6 interventions to implement to help catalyze those benefits. Sometimes a need is really just an opportunity to enhance something that is already working good to working better.
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Graphic Collage of the six interventions we recommended to the national laboratory.
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art Review For Tya Alisa Anthony
In the winter of 2022, I was gifted the opportunity to leverage Denver Reflections, my prose and poetry, to write a review of Denver-based Artist Tya Alisa Anthony's exhibition at Leon Art Gallery.
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"On a large wall is a print reminiscent of the wallpaper that adorned grandma’s place, just short of plastic covered couches to complete the living room, although the two leather brown seats atop green grass cut like a rug in the middle of the gallery do just as well. The prints, from afar, look like flowers..." Read more
2010S
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Intersections Zine Publication 1
In 2018, Olivia Hunte, the founder of the Intersections Zine, invited me to share my Denver Reflections in her Zine. At the time, she was collecting writings, art, etc. on reflection and connection.
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"2018 Denver Reflection #1: I cannot evolve if parts of me cannot coexist." See more in the image below.
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Endless Beautiful Podcast Feature
"Wrinkles in time only disturb the mind into small walks down lanes you tried to hide behind caution tape. What was it you were afraid of? You seem to fear everything. Your heart like a metronome ticking in time with rhythm of what you can’t escape–the new scape..."
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Guest Post
Guest Poet
While researching on my Thomas J Watson Fellowship, I visited Katie Ailes, Spoken Word Artist and Poet, in Edinburgh, Scotland. She gifted me the opportunity to write on her site about my experience in the city I endearingly call "the two-tier town."
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"But the beautiful lights weren’t the only sources of warmth in Edinburgh. Besides the museum galleries, wall-to-wall packed bars, copious amounts of cups of tea, words warmed the minds, bodies, and souls of many in the city, including me..." Read more
