Keynotes and guest remarks
Talks shaped around your theme, audience, and what you want people to leave holding.
Speaking · Gatherings · Research · Strategy
Bring me an audience, a gathering, a team, or a story.
I speak, perform, moderate, document, research, and facilitate work rooted in memory, identity, culture, technology, and the stories that shape how people understand themselves.
01 · Bring me into the room
Speaking, performance, moderation, and cultural commentary.
Live storytelling and performance
First-person work rooted in memory, family, place, and the stories we postpone.
Panels and fireside conversations
Conversation on culture, memory, archives, belonging, and human-centered technology.
Moderation and hosting
Research, question development, and live facilitation that keeps a conversation honest and moving.
Press interviews and cultural commentary
Grounded commentary on memory, identity, archives, technology, family, and place.
Signature talks
The Last Interview: Archiving the Stories Your Family Can’t Replace
Six days before my grandfather transitioned, I filmed the story of his life. This talk explores family estrangement, reconciliation, place, memory, and the questions we postpone.
What Technology Can’t Preserve
A reflection on what disappears when records survive without the relationships, places, and lived meaning surrounding them.
The Power of Cultural Confidence: Beyond the Checkbox
How identity, lived experience, and cultural understanding shape belonging—and what becomes possible when people recognize themselves in the room.
Topics and commentary
Cultural memory and preservationBlack family and community historyArchives and the historical recordHuman-centered technology and AICultural confidence and belongingFamily and community ecosystemsStorytelling, legacy, and placeFounder and creator journeys
02 · Bring me into the gathering
Help the room remember what happened there.
On the stage
Keynotes, storytelling, panels, moderation, hosting, and live interviews.
In the room
Attendee and speaker interviews, cultural correspondence, documentary-style capture, photography, written reflection, and social-first coverage.
Inside the experience
Facilitated reflection, participatory storytelling, and Melanotion memory experiences.
Bookable partnerships
- Cultural Correspondent
- Host and Moderator
- Storyteller-in-Residence
- Storytelling Activation through Melanotion
Storyteller-in-Residence
Before
Learn the theme and audience, identify the stories worth surfacing, and develop the interview and narrative direction.
During
Interview, document, host, perform, or facilitate the moments that carry the gathering’s meaning.
After
Shape a documentary-style recap, reflection, or set of themes the organizer can carry forward.
Featured correspondence · Mint To Be
Culture, style, and story from inside the gathering.
Fashion and cultural coverage capturing the people, style, stories, and meaning surrounding the Charlotte event.
03 · Bring me a complex question
Research, strategy, and facilitation grounded in human context.
I help founders, teams, cultural organizations, and institutions make sense of complexity, align around what matters, and turn human insight into a clear direction.
Story and Narrative Strategy
Cultural and Human-Centered Research
Design Thinking and Facilitation
Experience and Systems Strategy
Human-Centered AI
Experience includes work with Sephora, Estée Lauder, Bobbi Brown, Ally Financial, Bayer, Duke Energy, Texas Children's Hospital, Boy Scouts of America.