As a Professional Dancer, Ethnodanceologist, Research Scientist, Scholar and UX Researcher and Designer, it is my pleasure to join Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc) in Meta AI with the Fundamentals Artificial Intelligence Research Team (FAIR) on an exciting and phenomenal project in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Ego4D is a collaborative project, seeking to advance the fundamental AI research needed for multimodal machine perception for first-person video understanding.

With my specialized knowledge and interdisciplinary skill set, experience and expertise, I bring a unique perspective to data training in Computer Vision, Embodied AI and Machine Learning for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality applications offering cultural, social, historical and technical perspectives, ethnographic annotation and narrative for NLP, analysis and guidance on human movement patterns and complex movement activities. I also bring my skill set in education, teaching and instructional design as well as cross-cultural and international studies to this effort.

For more on Ego4D, a global, massive-scale Egocentric dataset visit the META AI Research website and explore studies, academic publications and posts to stay up to date on findings and discoveries.

I am a professor of Dance Arts in the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts under the direction of Dean Phylicia Rashad. I teach within the Theatre Department within COFA and I oversee the Internship Program in Dance Arts and am honored to be in the presence of such brilliant, talented students, faculty, staff and leadership. I am honored to carry on the legacy that is Howard University as an artist, scholar, researcher and educator.

I serve as a major function in the governance of National Dance Education Organization assisting with long-range and strategic planning, research, execution and working with other Policy, Board and Advisory Directors across other areas of the org, all work to put in place legislation, framework and standards fostering an effective and sustainable model for dance education through a leading United States national organization.

I am an elected NDEO Advisory Director to Awards overseeing a 18+ person committee, adjudication process selecting award recipients in the field of Dance Education nationally in Higher Education, K-12, the private sector/studio and in Dance Research and publication. Under my leadership, the expansion of our awards categories has gone from 4 to 10 with the addition of award categories in Leading Dance Organization and Lifetime Achievement - posthumous award. Look out for our 2026 Awards season in spring of 2026 and nominate someone you know or someone else for one of our national leadership awards!

Publishing house turned Media Co. offering DVDs, Video-on-Demand of the largest digital collection of Dance on Film going back 500 years. After a leadership role as Head of Product and Brand Ambassador, it is the first company I’ve acquired and now leading operations and strategic direction with full responsibility for bottom-line factors, including long range planning, global product development and management, product (film and media) processes and editorial blog writing, curation and management including all prior Head of Product duties. I manage cross-functionally, direct all operations including business development, PPR and DSL licensing, editorial content, Social Media Marketing, On-Demand development and streaming on national and international platforms. I also direct a small team of employees made up of a web developer, bookkeeper, film producer, social media marketer, content strategist and writers.

• Established robust Social Media Marketing increasing media presence by 80%.

• Returned company to high profitability through strategic and efficient restructuring.

• Established better workflows around product operations using various management tools cutting down product to delivery time down to 22%.

Conducted primary research using focus groups, interviews, surveys and social media to identify user pain points, new target segments informing both engaging and creative marketing strategies, campaigns and design insights helping DTP grow subscribers and expand into new market - licensing, streaming and further their distribution platform. Developed customer journeys, personas, wireframes, navigation maps and prototypes redesigning a new site and adding an editorial blog based on customer and user needs and website analytics and other data. Conducted A/B testing of copy and design for ads featured on facebook, twitter posts and website interstitials.

• Successfully redesigned new high-impact, user-centered website and on-demand (with streaming and digital downloading) with strong emotional appeal, sophisticated. production values and intuitive navigation to maximize user engagement and cement powerful brand identities. Created a more responsive and market driven platform resulting in digital sales by increased sales by 77%.

• Substantially improved productivity while reducing staffing and operational costs by 28%

• Opened new marketing channels and established strategic alliances in Europe and currently working on countries in Africa and Brazil.

• Successfully developed and launched new digital media products in international markets.