I am the Director of Community Research and Storytelling at the Community Justice Project, a nonprofit organization that supports grassroots organizing for power, racial justice and human rights with innovative lawyering, research, creative strategy tools and the arts. Prior to that I worked as a journalist in Miami for just over 10 years investigating how local government policies and actions— both historical and contemporary— impact everyday people. My practice and approach to storytelling is deeply rooted in history and first-person narratives that explore and connect issues around race, culture, climate justice, health inequities, poverty and displacement. ​My reporting has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's Bazaar and on NPR, WLRN News, Marketplace and PRI's The World.I am also the founder and lead researcher at Black Miami Dade, a historical platform that resists the erasure of Miami-Dade's Black past. You can follow that work on Instagram @blackmiamidade and www.blackmiamidad.com.I frequently lecture and speak in academic and community settings around disparities in Miami-Dade, community storytelling, local history and race. A child of Haitian immigrants and former farmworkers, I was born and raised in the county of Dade.