Entrepreneur

I build cultural and creative infrastructure inside technology systems.

My entrepreneurial work has centered on building cultural and creative infrastructure inside technology systems. Across multiple ventures, my focus has remained consistent: how platforms shape participation, visibility, and value, and how those structures influence what culture gets supported, preserved, or overlooked.

I began my career building technology products and organizations from the ground up. In the early 2010s, I founded and led ventures in mobile technology and community infrastructure, working with educational institutions, nonprofits, and cultural organizations. This period grounded my understanding of how technical systems are designed, funded, and maintained, and how those decisions ripple outward into culture and access.

As my work evolved, I became increasingly focused on the intersection of culture and technology. In 2021, I founded TheBlkChain, a living archive dedicated to documenting digital Black cultural production and the work of underrepresented artists. TheBlkChain was created in response to persistent gaps in how culture is recorded and valued in digital environments, particularly as Web3 and NFT ecosystems rapidly expanded without parallel attention to historical accountability or preservation.

In 2023, I launched Artskout, a digital art consultancy supporting artists, collectors, and institutions navigating digital art. Artskout operates as a bridge and activation layer, advising on collecting, placement, and narrative strategy while emphasizing cultural value, context, and long-term stewardship over speculation. The work spans individual collectors, galleries, and institutions seeking to engage digital art as both a creative and archival practice.

Entrepreneurship remains part of my practice, but it is not the destination. Building inside these systems has informed my writing, research, and criticism by grounding my perspective in lived experience rather than abstraction. Having worked across product development, community building, and cultural infrastructure, I now focus on examining what these systems produce, what they preserve, and what they quietly exclude.

This page reflects the practical foundation behind my critical work. It exists as context for the questions I now explore through writing, research, and archival practice.