crystal is...

a Nigerian and Southern American art educator and curriculum designer who works at the intersection between storytelling and creative community building, specifically within communities of Black women, girls, and gender-expansive youth. 

she comes from a legacy of educators and oral historians, whose diasporic traditions shape her practice.

she curates learning experiences, curricula, and archival projects that draw on the frameworks of Black feminisms and Black traditions of oral history as a means of memory making. 

she is deeply inspired by Toni Morrison’s concept of “rememory”, and uses it to ground her approach to uplifting the stories that lie beyond our linear conceptions of time and material surroundings. 

she is a youth worker at heart and has a passion for curating learning experiences that provide Black youth the tools to embark on their own personal archiving and storytelling projects.