She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English & History from Emory University in 2022 where her work was supported by the Mellon Foundation. Before joining Columbia, Channelle earned her Masters of Letters in Creative Writing (Prose) from Scotland’s University of St Andrews where she studied as a Robert T. Bobby Jones Scholar. Currently assisting Columbia’s Rare Books & Manuscripts Library on an upcoming exhibition exploring Toni Morrison’s editorial career at Random House, Channelle previously served as a curatorial and research assistant for the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for the Study of Global Slavery global exhibition, “In Slavery’s Wake.”

Specializing in Black diasporic literature and history with a certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Channelle is currently at work on a dissertation project exploring visuality, diasporic memory and the limits of form, thinking with and through writers such as Paule Marshall, Hortense Spillers, and Sylvia Wynter. In April 2026, she presented early approaches towards this project in a special invited lecture for Dartmouth College’s Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life’s 2026 Speaker Series, Black Visual Culture / Black Life. She has also presented her work at the American Studies Association and delivered special lectures to undergraduate and high school audiences on topics ranging from the metaphysical function of speculation in Octavia Butler’s Kindred and the effaced nature of memory in Morrison’s Beloved.

Also a creative writer, Channelle aims to produce a collection of creative nonfiction essays adjacent the theme of her dissertation. When she’s not taking care of her new Mini Schnauzer or taking walks in the park, Channelle leads reading groups at Brooklyn’s Center for Fiction, and her work has appeared in Hyperallergic.