Hello! I am a graphic and architectural designer and thinker living in Providence, Rhode Island with my husband Aaron Tobey and our pet pug Petrol. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in architecture history and theory at Columbia University. Focusing on Haiti’s architectural production at several world’s fairs, my dissertation analyzes building projects and interiors where figures from Haiti and elsewhere in the African diaspora involved in the formation of a transnational Black identity converged to articulate their position within an emerging world dominated by colonial/imperial powers. It specifically attends to how these figures negotiated the mutually constitutive relationship between race and nation through discourses produced alongside these built projects and the manner in which both figures and projects leveraged the symbolic and material capacities of architecture to serve as tools for realizing their various aspirations. My scholarship, criticism, and interviews have appeared in Thresholds, Architecture and Culture, JSAH, Avery Review, The New York Review of Architecture, ArchitectureMPS, and Pidgin. I obtained my a Master of Philosophy from Columbia University, my Master of Science in Architecture Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, my Master of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design, and my Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design as well as my Bachelor or Science in Philosophy from Towson University.