Speaking of Spirituality

Supported by grants from Humanities NY and Columbia’s Heyman Center for the Humanities, this forthcoming 3-episode podcast mini-series invites listeners to hear from religious, spiritual, and community leaders on conversations around race, gender and sexuality, and religion.

 
 

  • Through historical and archival research of Harlem and Afro-Protestant religious history and queer studies, I help standardize cultural competency practices, bridge external and internal initiatives between the team and our partners, and oversee diverse participant recruitment.

  • Support initial interview structure development, on-sight recording, content story-boarding, and final editing for the podcast production.

  • I recruit, hire, and liaise between the SoS production team and tech partners to support the design and development of the forthcoming website, webapp, and digital audio archive.

 
 
 

TSWRA WBAR

TSWRA (“The South Will Rise Again”) was a radio show co-hosted by myself and two other students at Barnard’s online radio station WBAR. The team curated a setlist of Southern Hip Hop and R&B while discussing Southern African-American history, scholarship, and pop culture and invites guests to join in the conversation.

The show was featured in the opening panel for Religion and the History of Black Music Summer Series for Columbia School of Professional Studies and spotlighted on “Notes From the Underground” on WKCR 89.9 FM to discuss Southern Hip Hop to over 500 listeners.

Listen to all our playlists on Spotify, hear a sample episode, and/or watch our panel discussion with the links below.

 
 
View fullsize as y’all know last week’s episode dedicated to queen bey was postponed to this week that’s bc your hosts had to bring back the south for @colbyxzavier ‘s birthday enjoy some shots from the night and get ready for bey day Fri
View fullsize CALLING THE BEYHIVE 🐝 🐝🐝 This week’s episode of tswra is dedicated to the queen herself. While many people are beginning to acknowledge Beyoncé’s impact in R&B music, music videos, marketing, dancing, and popular performanc
View fullsize TSWRA is taking y'all to church this week with a playlist full of praise & worship! Whether it's hip-hop, pop, jazz, or rock, they all took notes from the southern congregation. "REVOLUTION" will spotlight the hitmakers and culture-chan
View fullsize This week on TSWRA we’re getting into another aspect of the culture. We’re talking about this impact of drugs on Southern hip hop and Southern Black culture, generally. This week we’ll be giving a lot more history and research than
View fullsize In preparation for Bacchanal and in manifestation of warmer weather, tomorrow’s episode is dedicated to the family reunion anthems, the cookout classics, and the party tracks of the Black South. We gotta cut down almost 4 HOURS of content for
View fullsize Tomorrow, we’re back with an episode all about drip. Everyone knows that hip-hop runs fashion (e.g. every “urban,” “street wear,” and “athleisure” section of every brand), but most of your favorite fashion wa
View fullsize This week on TSWRA we’re highlighting Black LGBTQ+ artists that have shaped, challenged, and progressed Southern Hip Hop and R&B. Like many aspects of Black life, Black trans and queer people have been at the root of Southern Hip Hop. Fro
View fullsize This week on TSWRA it’s all about slabs, swangas, wood grain, candy paint, and spinners. We’re dedicating this episode to Southern Hip Hop’s car culture and the influence cars have on the music. We got everything from UGK to Pi&rsq
 

How to Read Podcast

I worked as an undergraduate producer for the How to Read Podcast from 2019-2020. The podcast interviews academics about their research to make academia more accessible to wider audiences.

Hear a bonus clip of one my favorite episodes below.