To plant a garden
is to believe in
tomorrow...

We stand at the brink of major global disruptions—climate change, pandemics, and automation—threatening democracy, the economy, and individual self-sufficiency. These shifts will disproportionately burden vulnerable populations, particularly racial and ethnic minorities. Beyond being profoundly unjust, this imbalance threatens social stability.

The red-through line in all of my work functions to support nation-states and agencies to become more fortified as they serve populations to build critical human capital in order to navigate the ever-changing global landscape. This series of writing is both academic and accessible in an effort to ensure that the discourse toward protecting tomorrow is inclusive.

My work exists at the intersection of organizational operational coherence, human rights, spatiality, and good governance.

I hope the opinions shared here provoke thought and/or action.

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Genocide by Attrition in the U.S. Post 1968: Urban Planning - The Conscripted Tool to Discharge and Integral to Reconciliation

This research examines the life conditions of African Descendants of American Slavery (ADAS) in the U.S. and posits that the State (U.S. government) has and continues to commit the act of genocide against the group. The genocide paradigm is often dominated by time-intense direct violence enacted with explicitly declared intent (e.g., Holocaust, Rwanda etc.) (Wakeham, 2021). I argue that the case of U.S. genocide against ADAS is indicative of genocide by attrition, a slow process of annihilation that reflects the unfolding phenomenon of the mass killing of a protected group rather than the immediate unleashing of violent death.