Laurie is a Haitian-made, African-grown, Brooklyn-based, cultural [&] memory worker. With their collaborators, they explore questions around queer diasporic experience under the intention of [remembering] [imagining] pathways towards personal and collective liberations. As a writer and artist, they know that their most honest & impactful work, at its core, is also a study of self. As an oral historian, they work with the oral history encounter, and the archive generated from it, as prompts for creative reflection through mixed mediums. Based in Brooklyn, they can be found in conversation with their community in their day to day life, and on the 2NDGENders Podcast. Laurie is a 2023 OHMA Future Voices fellow and 2024-2025 Artist in Residence with Haiti Cultural Exchange.