Community Engagement and Interdisciplinary Work

Civic Saturday Pilot Program, interactive Sound Installation,

and Student Organizing Research Archive

Project Creator and community facilitator

Civic Saturdays were a series of interdisciplinary gatherings hosted at Brooklyn College to foster the next generation of student leaders and explore the impacts of civic engagement and community building on institutional and cultural change. Gatherings showcased the voices of students, faculty, civic organizations, and outside guest artists, bringing these groups together for artistic expression and guided conversations.

Inspired by the work of Citizen’s University and completed as part of the Civic Saturday National Fellowship and SPCUNY Actionist Fellowship, three public gatherings were held between the Spring of 2022 and 2023. Each gathering was created by a revolving group of student leaders responding to active community needs within the Brooklyn College Theater Department. Central discussion prompts were curated alongside interactive arts programming and organizational partnerships with guests from the Brooklyn DSA and Chinese Museum of America that engaged students, staff, and faculty in response to relevant topics and concerns, encouraging a culture of civic action and community care. Through activating existing community assets and providing consistent long-term space for addressing concerns and coming together, the gatherings offered space for healing, expression, and reigniting civic spirit within the student body, especially following the isolation of the pandemic and a period of racial justice organizing by the students and alumni of 2020.

In addition to the in-person gatherings, an interactive sound installation was created to digitally and physically archive student organizers’ often ephemeral labor and their relationality to the legacy of organizing within CUNY and beyond. The installation contains student art, documentation, resources, and oral histories of organizers that have impacted the recent institutional and cultural changes at Brooklyn College. The installation was displayed at the final Civic Saturday gathering and invited students to engage with and add to the legacy the archive looks to capture.

Obsession and Legacy

Director and Dramaturg

An interdisciplinary project with The Sebastain’s Baroque Ensemble, exploring contemporary dramatic scenes and music inspired by the legacy of Archangelo Corelli. Arcangelo Corelli’s hard-earned fame meant he would influence generations of musicians to come. In this original program of music and scenes, the Sebastians core quartet was joined by two actors in the intimate Alchemical Studios for a dramatic exploration of what it means to want it all.

24 Hour Plays - Savannah

Co-Artistic Producer

The 24 Hour Plays brings together creative communities to produce plays and musicals written, rehearsed, and performed in 24 hours. Through the radically present approach to theater, work is made that responds immediately to the world around us, builds communities, and generates new artistic partnerships. Six writers, six directors, and twenty-four actors from different parts of the performance community came together for The 24 Hour Plays process in Savannah at The Savannah Cultural Arts Center on Saturday, October 22, 2022

Fuel the People

Community Partnership Coordinator

Founded by GaÏana Joseph and Allegra Massaro Fuel the People was a grassroots community organizing initiative founded in 2020 guided by the belief that food is the fuel for the revolution. Fuel The People worked to provide nourishment to protestors on the front lines and New York communities in need to support local Black and POC-owned restaurants and businesses and donate to local organizations who work tirelessly to support Black liberation. In the first year Fuel the People was able to serve 43,000+ meals, and give back $60k+ to Black and POC-owned restaurants including expanded partnerships and initiatives such as Fuel the Vote, which distributed 7,375 meals to voters, poll workers, and community members in DC, NYC, & LA during the 2020 election.