Work Experience: I worked as an architect for nearly 20 years before becoming a professor. I worked on domestic public and private commercial and civic projects. Towards the end of my career I worked mostly on projects world wide. I was the Principal/CEO of my own firm, Archistoria, LLC. We primarily worked on historic preservation and cultural patrimony projects in the United States and overseas. 

Fields of study: U.S. Social History, 19th & 20th Century African American Intellectual History, and Cultural Heritage. Research in Race & Racism, Black Marxism, Blacks in the West, African American Disapora, Cultural Geography and trends in World History.

My current project is finishing a manuscript titled The Golden Era of Black Los Angeles, Resistance, Appropriation and Accommodation, 1900-1930.

I am also the former Director of the Ralph Bunche Scholars College at the Los Angeles City College.

Education: Bachelors of Architecture from Prairie View A & M University of Texas;  Master of Arts in Historic Preservation & Public History from the California State University at Dominguez Hills; Master of Arts in History from the Claremont Graduate University, Master of Arts in African American Studies from University of California at Los Angeles and a Doctor of Philosophy from Claremont Graduate University.

Citizenship: United States & Italy (European Union)