Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB) will work on portions of two separate projects at different stages of development. The first project is Gifted, a podcast and artistic memoir book on adventure, self-mastery, and healing through interviews and performances globally. The second is a PhD dissertation at Northwestern University, currently titled The End(s) of Suffering, which is a Performance Studies project on slavery reparations, the spiritual practice of ancestral afterlife, and the ethics of artistic collaboration.