'I think my interests, especially in African-American stories and black African stories, is bridging those worlds and making that connection because I think our histories are really interconnected.' –c_kayiza
soon after graduation. There, she was working with attorneys on state-based criminalization of poverty work. Following two years with the organization, she found herself reeled back into the world of documentaries, merging film with her recent social justice background. Her stirring short documentary “Edgecombe” examines the ways trauma repeats and reinvents itself in a rural Black community in Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
My family is Ugandan. Being a group of these African immigrants in suburban Oklahoma was definitely a particular experience. Storytelling in my family is very much a part of my experience growing up, just because of having family spread out in different locations. I was definitely really encouraged to connect through storytelling and oral history and knowing about family members and my parents' experience through that exchange.
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