Museums are my favorite third place. A few times a week I find myself at the Oakland Museum of California, walking-distance from home, practicing the ritual of getting lost among the natural, art, and California histories. \
\
One Sunday in January, however, I happened upon a series of fortunate events that deviated from my usual milieu. It started at home on the museum’s event page—Register here for an online study group hosted by The Church of Black Feminist Thought. 

Ten minutes later I joined Zoom and entered a collective dreamspace. Together, we conspired in practices of liberation, including an exercise where everyone chorused “practice another way to breathe” (Alexis Pauline Gumbs, *Undrowned*). Some on the call sang, others buzzed. I whispered. At the end of this virtual communion, when I craved further inspiration and physical connection, I knew which well to return to. \
\
Twenty-minutes later I was at the museum standing in front of my favorite piece—Mourning Wreath by local artist Angela Hennessy. The nearly-three-meter ring hung alone on a wall painted black. Its tangled weave of synthetic and Angela’s hair, chains, gold leaf, and paint knotted an ecosystem of tradition, power, Blackness, and grief.\
\
I scanned the accompanying QR code to listen to Angela’s “[Mourning Meditation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AZVYj4aRc4&t=36s)”. Her voice felt so personal and intimate through my headphones: “Grieve on the daily. Make time every day to grieve…breathing in and breathing out, breathing in and breathing out…” As her words swelled, I matched her grief with my own. I practiced another way to breathe.\
\
Moments like that Sunday—sparked by random curiosity, rooted in community, and experienced at museums—are what drive me in exploring art’s relationship to truth, history, and the natural world. Conceptual installation artist Mark Dion calls it the ability “to blend things more critically”. (He [references](https://theoaklandstandard.museumca.org/sites/default/files/The_Irritated_Cloud.pdf) the Oakland Museum, of all places).

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Photo captured by Angela Hennessy. Same Sunday

Uncommon Archive 02

For almost forty years, my grandparents ran a supper club in Detroit, a stop along the Chitlin Circuit that brought healing and rhythm and blues to the Black community. While I knew this was a big part of their lives, a place my mother grew up in, it always seemed like a place that existed in memory. Neither of my grandparents is big on sharing or taking photos.

What started as a night watching the [Searching for Sugar Man](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/searching-for-sugar-man-2012) documentary turned into a month-long archival of a piece of family history—searching in newspaper archives, magazines, and more.

Presented as a scrapbook with handwritten notes from family members. Select images below

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Uncommon Archive 01

Actively seeking program, product, and strategy opportunities at the intersection of education, community, and technology

Product, Creative Technologist

Do Something Scholarship Winner, Foot Locker

Valedictorian, Westlake High School

Pessoa-Trejos Grant Recipient, Stanford Global Studies Program

Awarded to Stanford undergraduate students interested in completing an independent internship with an organization in Brazil

Spent the Summer of 2015 working at a Brunswick Group in São Paulo

Symbolic Systems is an interdisciplinary program that combines computer science, psychology, philosophy, and linguistics in order to better understand cognition in both humans and machines. Viewing people and computers as symbol processors, the Symbolic Systems major strives to understand how people and computers reason, perceive, and act

Minor in Modern Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

Coursework: Computer Science, Minds and Machines, Cognition in Interaction Design, Making Sense of Strategy, Decision Analysis/ Optimization, Mathematical Logic, Social Sector Analytic Skills, Epistemology, Human Behavioral Biology, Growing Up Bilingual

Founding Member: Social Entrepreneurial Students' Association (SENSA)

Customized HTML Web Design for Los Angeles Home Stager

Web Design

Sample Project: [Stripped Down Songwriting with H.E.R.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC3AmBbv-VA)

Content Design and Structure, UX and Subject Research, Marketing and Class Positioning, Amplitude Analytics

Product

Collaboration with Design and Writing team at Goldfront to create product and brand strategy for ed tech company Newsela

Newsela Brand Identity

Furniture & Art Sourcing

Apartment Redesign

Interior Design

Select projects: Binocular Case (2024). Stool (2023). Writing Desk (2021)

Wood & Leatherwork

Select Projects: ReLove Boutique (2024). Pretty Penny Clothing (2023). Shukriya Bags with Emmad Mazhari (2021). Creative Shoot with Zara Saraon (2020)

Modeling & Image Design

Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles Report

Ashoka U is the largest social e conference in U.S., for a community lunch

Changeovers for Changemakers: How to Maintain Mission Integrity & Passion during Leadership Transition & Vision Expansion

Implemented overall strategy to foster social e ecosystem by leading \~40 member student group across Learning, Marketing, Very Impactful People speaker series, SENSA Labs social e accelerator, Fellowships, Operations teams

Managed 'URBST 131: Very Impactful People: The Social Entrepreneur and The Social Innovator’, a weekly 110+ person lecture series bringing social entrepreneurs from around the world to Stanford; brought 20+ speakers to Stanford including Sally Osberg, Jimmy Wales, and Wendy Kopp

Awarded $24,000 to SENSA Summer Fellowship recipients to work at top social-e enterprises

President, Director of Org Development

The African People's Education & Defense Fund (APEDF) develops and institutionalizes programs to defend the human and civil rights of the African community, and to address the grave disparities in education, health, healthcare, and economic development faced by African people

Operations, Grants, and Partnerships

(2020) State Senate

(2024) District Supervisor

Joined on weekly phone banking, literature drops, Election Day volunteering

Continued participation in pushing forward the work of Jackie's campaign through the DayBreak Political Action Committee https://daybreakpac.org/about

Campaign Volunteer

Leather, Textiles and Fine Arts

Curated/ translated daily Lava Jato materials for client updates and presentations; Completed project on Brazilian Internet presence in global markets

Corporate Strategic Communications Intern

Assisted in crafting meaningful strategic stories across strategy, messaging and brand initiatives

Selected Project: Newsela Brand Identity Design

Strategist, Writer

Client work across image and web design, interior styling and sourcing, and furniture fabrication and restoration

Designer and Project Consultant

Designed and led portfolio strategy and content development for digital learning experience across two new verticals: Writing and DIY & Making.

Managed timelines and deliverables across entire project lifecycle, collaborating with stakeholders across Engineering, Product Design, and Production

Responsible for business development pipeline of 50+ creatives from Outreach to deal negotiation

Collaborated with instructors to develop instructional materials using low-touch content capture methods, accelerating production timelines by 5x

Conducted qualitative and quantitative research to monitor course outcomes and refine overall effectiveness.

Produced and directed multi-day shoots remotely

Researched and developed strategic visioning, comms and curriculum.

Project Manager, Creative Content

Helped direct and execute our corporate marketing strategy; produced multiple, 200+ events in the Bay Area, New York and Seattle including cruises, conferences, speaker series, stealth-startup networking nights.
 
Managed teams of associates at Stanford and Berkeley for our University Program

Integrated User Experience tracking into our formal processes, including NPS

Began visioning and MVP work on Community Membership and Development

Project Manager, Principal

Researched brand & marketing initiatives of potential clients; Supported in the creation of consulting pitch decks; Participated in strategy brainstorming sessions and project post-mortems; Assisted in new business pipeline analysis quarterly reports

Associate

Partnered with ambitious college engineers to help them find life-changing career opportunities. Collaborated with early-stage founders to build out their talent infrastructure and foundational engineering teams

During my time at HC, the firm grew from managing less than $5M to over $500M, onboarding several of the first 50 engineers at Brex, Robinhood, Snowflake, Nuro, and more

Jada Webster

2023

2022