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CROSSROADS

Photo: Ed Marshall

HUMANIZING

CULTURAL
ICONS

FILM | CONVERSATION

Arts & Culture | Identity & Representation | Storytelling |
Healing & Transformation 

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 or mishandling complexity.

 

No pre-interviews. No scripts. Just a single camera, an open room, and a shared willingness to go deep. With only the framing 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. 

 

The series proved that when vulnerability is met with reverence, icons become human—and their turning points become templates for anyone navigating painstaking transformation.

Liza Jessie Peterson

Jamel Shabazz

Neycha

GUESTS:

Toshi Reagon, Singer-Songwriter [The Seekers | Full Spectrum panel] 

Clay McLeod Chapman, Playwright/Actor [The Frighteners | Full Spectrum panel]

Wangechi Mutu, Visual Artist [The Post-Colonialists | Full Spectrum panel]

Liza Jessie Peterson, Writer/Performance Artist [The Truth-Tellers | Full Spectrum panel]

Leah Carroll , Writer[The Blood Historians | Full Spectrum panel]

Jamel Shabazz, Photographer/Educator [The Griots | Full Spectrum panel]

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