He is a two-time National Poetry Slam Champion, a member of the 2005 Albuquerque National Champion slam team, and a member of the 2006 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational Champion UNM team. He won the 2005 Albuquerque City Slam Championship and won three consecutive UNM LOBOSLAM titles. He has also read his work on KUNM-FM and in many poetry venues around the area and was the poetry coach of the South Valley Academy Poetry Club. His work has been published in the Harwood Anthology (2006), Earthships anthology (2007), Lunarosity.com, Sin Fronteras, A Bigger Boat (2008), and Looking Back at Place (UNM Press, 2008). He also won the Route Words competition (2005), resulting in his poems being placed on the sides of Albuquerque city buses. He currently works for the New Mexico Office of African American Affairs, and is a board member of the Poetic Justice Institute and Black Cowgirl Productions.