I am a devoted public and oral historian. I have over fifteen years experience conducting oral interviews, and I co-directed the NEH-funded initiative Media and the Movement, which interviewed more than fifty activists in the civil rights and Black Power movements who worked in media.

I'm also deeply involved with museums and public humanities institutions. I serve on the advisory boards of the Baltimore City Historical Society and the Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community & Culture, as well as the Enoch Pratt Free Library’s advisory council. I co-curated the gallery exhibit Soul Souvenirs: Bull City Soul Revival: Durham’s Musical Memories of the 1960s and 1970s in Durham, North Carolina, which our team subsequently turned into a website, Bull City Soul. I have served on the board of the Museum of Durham History, and I currently serve on the advisory board of the Baltimore Uprising 2015 Archive project housed at the Maryland Historical Society. I'm an active member of the Library of Congress's Radio Preservation Task Force and its African American and Civil Rights caucus. At the University of Baltimore, I teach an introductory course to public history.

I'm available as a consultant for public history and oral history projects.