At the NFD MLK Freedom Now Mural Paint Day, Dr. Matthew Kenyatta secured support through the Netter Center for Community Partnerships and actively contributed by painting a panel of the newly replaced mural at 40th and Lancaster. The event, hosted at 3952 Lancaster Ave, featured a community cleanup, mural painting, and a lively happy hour celebration. Organized by Nova Commons and supported by partners like Mural Arts Philadelphia, Penn Community Bank, and Mosaic Commercial, the dedication celebrated both the mural and the community’s collective spirit.

The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation awarded me two grants - the 2024 Community Partnerships Award and the 2024 Independent Creative Production Grant.

A design charrette and planning discussion featuring food and prototypes, organized by PennPraxis and Dr. Matt. While students came with six or seven different prototypes, this was the first time they would meet the community members I invited and solicit written feedback. They also would give suggestions on alternative locations to do streetscape interventions. This meeting is how the Lex Street block was lifted up as a prime opportunity for making a "gateway" design intervention.

This session for the Landscape Architecture Department was the first time Experiential Reality (VR/XR) technology had been used for a required course in any department.

This session for the Department of Historic Preservation was the first time Experiential Reality (VR/XR) technology had been used for an orientation in any department and it occurred during their Summer Institute.

On behalf of the Urban Institute and the Sheffield Institute for International Development-Cities, I was invited to participate in a consultative forum on Black Urbanism to be held on March 24th 2021 at 16:00 GMT. the Sheffield research centers that are initiating this--Urban Institute, and the Sheffield Institute for International Development. But the aim is for Victoria to convene, Dr. Patricia Noxolo, Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis, and Dr. Paul Goodwin to steer the discussion. The initiative seeks to further the discussion for urban studies in general, and to continue to work against the lack of inclusion at the UK's top urban research institutions.

A conversation between poet Solmaz Sharif and architectural historian Charles Davis. Sharif will present a reading of poems titled “’I can’t do what I want / to do with my own body’: A Reading in Conversation with June Jordan” and Davis will present his new visual and scholarly work “Building Black Utopias: The Architectural Modernisms of African American Writers, 1960-1975.” Introductions by Maya Alam and Sophie Hochhäusl. Moderated by Matt Miller, Fatemeh Shams and Ali AlYousefi

The Art of Black Urbanism was a conversation and art exhibition on black visibility and shifting spaces in community, presented by the UW Department of Urban Design and Planning in collaboration with BEart&urbanism. The panel included Dr. Matthew Miller, a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design’s Department of City and Regional Planning, and Jessica Rycheal, a Southern interdisciplinary story-teller and Art Director based in Seattle, Washington. The discussion was moderated by Tiana Brawley, co-founder of BEart&urbanism and a student at the University of Washington School of Social Work.