
CROSSROADS
HUMANIZING
CULTURAL
ICONS
FILM | CONVERSATION
Arts & Culture | Identity & Representation | Storytelling |
Healing & Transformation
Client: Tate Strategy
I was contracted as host and interviewer for Crossroads, a filmed conversation series capturing emotionally raw stories from public figures at pivotal turning points. Tasked with embodying unscripted depth and emotional precision, I walked cultural figures into charged terrain without oversteering, spectacle, or flattening complexity.
No pre-interviews. No scripts. Just a single camera, an open room, and a shared willingness to go deep. With only the question as anchor, I served as both witness and guide—listening for the unsaid, tracking emotional undertow, and inviting reflection without intrusion.The outcome was intimate, cinematic conversations that honored the hard-earned wisdom of turning points without overproducing them.
The series proved that when vulnerability is met with reverence, icons become human—and their turning points become templates for anyone navigating hard-won transformation.
Aligned Tenets: Inquiry as Practice, Radical Honesty, Self-encounter,








Liza Jessie Peterson
Jamel Shabazz
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Liza Jessie Peterson
GUESTS:
Singer-Songwriter Toshi Reagon [The Seekers]
Playwright/Actor Clay McLeod Chapman [The Frighteners]
Visual Artist Wangechi Mutu [The Post-Colonialists]
Writer/Performance Artist Liza Jessie Peterson [The Truth-Tellers]
Writer Leah Carroll [The Blood Historians]
Photographer/Educator Jamel Shabazz [The Griots]
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