April 2022
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​Did you know Chicago has more toxic lead pipes than any other U.S. city? And Illinois has more than any other state. Despite these dangers, Lori Lightfoot is dragging her feet on replacing them. After her promise in 2021 to remove over 650 lines, so far only 3 out of nearly 400,000 have been replaced. Our communities deserve clean, safe, lead-free water now! 

In collaboration with Justseeds Artists Cooperative and the National Resources Defense Council, I created this new work because Black and brown residents are disproportionately impacted by the state’s contaminated drinking water, being twice as likely to live in neighborhoods with lead service lines than white residents. 

Get this poster and several others on climate change and environmental justice at EXPO CHICAGO from April 7-10th —Justseeds will be live screen-printing free posters and activating the entrance with an outdoor mural installation at Navy Pier, entry 2 turnabout, just east of the Sable Hotel entrance. Read more about the partnership between NRDC, EXPO, and justseeds at justseeds.org/events.

Image description: A black and white illustrated image of a young person sitting cross-legged and holding a cup that has water pouring into it from a tap. There are rays illustrated behind them. Words in cursive above the image read “everybody deserves safe lead-free water.” At the bottom of the image, the words read “get the lead pipes out of the ground!”

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May 2021

I collaborated with the People's Paper Co-Op to create this poster, Sounds of Abolition, to raise funds to free mamas from prison! 100% of proceeds go to the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund campaign to bail people out for the holidays. It was an honor to create this poster alongside nine other movements artists across North America, and in collaboration with such generous and visionary women at the PPC. You can purchase a full or partial set of all 10 posters at the People's Paper Co-op website, and you can purchase this individual poster in the Justseeds online store.

March 2021
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Fernando Marti and I collaborated, virtually, on a print for the 2021 Justseeds Community Supported Art (CSA) subscription. Given the prompt "portals between time, and learning from past movements" we thought about the portal that has been opened by the pandemic: the knowledge we have gained in this moment, and the possibilities this moment has allowed us to see. But those in power want to close that door again – “When we go back to normal.” And we need to keep letting the water and seeds flow through, collectively navigating this new world together.

We traded sketches and thoughts about how to make a collaborative image over distance, each contributing a piece and then weaving it together digitally, and this was the result. ​I brought in the quote from Naomi Murakawa's forward to Mariame Kaba's We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: "Kaba's abolitionist version burns so bright precisely because she refuses to be the single star, dazzling alone. Why be a star when you can make a constellation?" That phrase led to our final design. Poster currently unavailable to the general public. Check back for updates in 2022.

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February 2021
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A NYT bestseller in just one week. Wow!

​Order your copy of We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba, published by Haymarket Books, edited by Tamara K. Nopper, and cover artwork by me! Truly an honor. 

October 2020

We Keep Each Other Safe in the Streets is a collaborative poster series that I curated in collaboration with Love & Protect, Street Youth Rise Up, Lifted Voices, Axis Lab, and TM Productions. Artists like Molly Costello, Grae Rosa, Asha Edwards, and many more worked with the organizations to create illustrated posters demonstrating how we can tangibly keep our communities safe during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. You can download the posters on the Justseeds website here.