Areas include expressive culture and performance; urban youth culture; public anthropology; Black girlhood and Black feminist theory. Recently completed Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship in Post-Industrial Detroit. Choreographer and dancer, toured extensively with the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble/ Ailey II. Founder, The BlackLight Project, a youth-led arts activist organization housed at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Currently co-editor of Transforming Anthropology, journal of the national Association of Black Anthropologists.