Combine Black feminist epistemologies, with golden era HipHop, and a love for the physics of flight shaped by Michael Jordan and Bessie Coleman…and you’ve got the ingredients to the Black Girl Fly of my drone storytelling...

Grounded in African-indigenous traditions of navigation, interdisciplinary Black studies training and, an aesthetic calibrated to see beauty in quotidian Blackness, the drone extends my vision by adding an aerial perspective that can expose the beauty of Black communities to help us understand and appreciate the alchemy of Black placemaking