Invisible: How Long COVID. Taught Me that Being ChronicAlly Ill Isn’t About You
This piece is a reflection on my 18-month journey with Long COVID. The timing of my infection and subsequent development of Long COVID was awkward, as it happened during the rollout of vaccinations and rollbacks of lockdowns and restrictions. The world was more ready than ever to move on from lockdowns, daily pandemic updates, and taking COVID precautions. I, however, was not as eager to forget the last year and a half that had traumatized us all physically and mentally.
“Invisible” is dedicated to everyone who has experienced the heartbreak of being left to navigate their chronic illness or disability alone. Absolutely no one should have to, and yet an alarming number of people do. I hope this piece enlightens those who are unaware of this experience and offers a sense of camaraderie to those who are familiar with it. May we all know what it’s like to be seen by our doctors, communities, and world one day.
Shared Drafts Project. October 2025.
Participatory Grantmaking in Philanthropy: How Democratizing Decision-Making Shifts Power to Communities
I co-wrote the chapter “The Haymarket People’s Fund: Evaluating an Antiracist Grantmaking Model” based on my qualitative research of the grassroots organizations Haymarket funded from 2018-2019. Thank you to my co-authors and the Research Assistants who helped make this chapter possible!
Georgetown University Press. December 2024.
On the Art of the Craft: A Guidebook to Collaborative Storytelling
You can read my short story “From Above” written in response to Amalie Kwassman’s “My Name is Not My Sky” in this guidebook on collaborative storytelling that I co-edited. Thank you to my fellow Editorial Advisory Committee members who helped make this book possible!
HarperOne, Harper Collins. April 2024.
Between St. Nicholas and Amsterdam: How Columbia claims ‘public use’ for its private gain
My op-ed I did for Defend Harlem discussing Columbia University’s gentrification of Harlem, Hamilton Heights, and Washington Heights from my perspective as a third-generation Harlemite.
The Columbia Spectator. February 2024.
EEAP Coalition Newsroom
I covered several of the Education Equity Action Plan (EEAP) Coalition’s efforts to develop and insitute an interdisciplinary Pre-K-12 Black Studies curriculum in NYC. This curriculum would acknowledge the history and contributions of Black people, from early Black societies through the present. You can read any of my following articles:
1. “Why Diverse Representation in the Classroom is the Answer to a “More Divided America than Ever”
2. “The Black Studies: An Education for Me + You Bookmobile Debuts in Jamaica, Queens”
3. “Local New York City Students Remember Liss”
4. “Bring Black Studies Curriculum to New York City Students”
EEAP Coalition Newsroom. July-August 2023
Please Capitalise the B in Black
My op-ed on how I perceive and become proud of my Blackness as I come of age in college, specifically a predominately white institution.
The Heights. February 2019.