is an multi-disciplinary artist and award-winning historian of American and Canadian Hip Hop culture, the creative industries, and the music marketplace. She holds a Ph.D. in History from York University in Toronto, Canada (2019) and has served as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto (2020-2022) and the University of Calgary (2022-2023). Her doctoral research traced how American emcees have constructed complex ethnographies of urban spaces, transformed dispositions of power, and unmasked a persistent and haunting coloniality in the afterlives of American slavery. Her postdoctoral research explored Canadian Hip Hop’s relationship to national mythmaking, commerce, and anti-Black market segmentation . Her current research at the Hip Hop Education Center - where she serves as Chief Research Officer - focusses on the Hip Hop Education standards and the professionalization of the field.