These projects and partnerships are where radical imagination meets the ground. From community workshops to public speaking, this is how we turn the "what if" of liberation into a practical reality you can touch and feel.
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Speculative Fiction A subscription-based speculative fiction project delivering physical mail from futures where we survived — letters, artifacts, and instructions that treat the present as a hinge point, not a dead end.
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Speculative Design A deliberate act of imagination asking: what if matriarchal wisdom was the governing logic of this country? What if care, rematriation, and collective power reshaped everything?
Speaking & Press I joined Marion Atieno Osieyo on Black Earth Podcast to talk about futures work, climate justice, and what happens when Black women lead the work of imagining what comes next.
Client Work Cinereach
An organizational futures exercise helping Cinereach — an independent film incubator — imagine what it means to champion independent storytelling in a radically transformed media landscape.
Speaking & Press A talk on how Octavia Butler saw fires, climate collapse, and social fracture long before anyone gave her credit — and why Black women keep seeing what's coming first.
Speaking & Press I was profiled in Mother Jones on how Octavia Butler's work shapes my approach to futures thinking — and why her predictions keep landing with such chilling accuracy.
Speaking & Press At the 2025 Dubai Future Forum, I joined a global panel to discuss imagination as a form of critical infrastructure and a survival technology that allows the African diaspora to touch, feel, and build self-determined futures.
Speaking & Press I moderated this panel at SXSW 2025 with Lauren Williams, Dr. Shamika Klassen, and Carmela Wilkins — a conversation about how Black women's perspectives have always been doing the futures work that mainstream futurism keeps discovering late.
Speaking & Press An article I wrote for the Brookings Institution on our community futures work in Tulsa's historic Greenwood District — and what a blueprint for equitable development looks like when it's grounded in radical imagination.
Speculative Fiction A card game for imagining the futures Silicon Valley tells us are impossible — adapted from Stuart Candy's The Thing From The Future for the post-climate-collapse moment we're actually in.
Client Work Haywood Burns Institute + PartnerTulsa
A speculative futures project rooted in the history of Greenwood — exploring what genuine community ownership of land and real estate in North Tulsa could look like by 2040.
Speculative Fiction 50 abstract image cards designed to move groups from over-thinking to shared desire. This facilitation tool strengthens the creative muscles required for community work, helping people bypass analytical barriers and connect with the lived reality of the worlds they are building together.
Client Work Annie E. Casey Foundation
A a tactile world-building process where Black and Indigenous young men designed future environments of belonging rooted in their own lived experiences and design principles.