Beginning at UN Human Rights (OHCHR) Geneva and promoted to the full-time, "expert" grade position at UN Human Rights (OHCHR-NY) based at UN Headquarters in New York City. He’s created multidisciplinary content and research for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights about usage of relevant tangible/intangible cultural heritage that helps advance human rights, UN Sustainable Development Goals, and ways the arts can empower communities. Additionally, he has led and curated several UN projects, including a multi-national UN arts/human rights webinar series, the development and moderated the final long plenary of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) 10th Anniversary Youth Forum 2021, United Nations International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (2021), the first United Nations International Day for People of African Descent (2021), multi-agency United Nations Art Collection project, dynamic UN Human Rights/UNHQ Visitor Services webisodes, and several UN films, including a short film about the ‘I Still Believe in Our City’ campaign sponsored by UN Human Rights (OHCHR) and the NYC Commission on Human Rights. The ongoing arts/human rights webinar series includes international, exhibiting artists from Puerto Rico, Russia, Brazil, U.S.A., Bangladesh, Lebanon, and Afghanistan.
Recently, he has the prestigious honor of curating and presenting new research, work with the United Nations Art Collection, exhibition results, choreography, curriculum, expert oral/written statements, a multi-media exhibition, and the accomplishments of his multifaceted projects at various international institutions including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva (Switzerland), European Court of Human Rights (France), Council of Europe (France), and in conversation with colleagues from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) working in Geneva and Paris.
His curatorial, artistic, artifact/object, and human rights focused projects at the UN have been featured extensively on UN TV, as well as UN, UN Human Rights, UNHQ Visitor Services, UN News Centre Chinese, UN Global, and UN Permanent Missions’ podcast, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook channels.
Title: Dreams & Defiance: Centering Cultural Expressions of People of African Descent
Film trailer for a film celebrating the first United Nations International Day of People of African Descent (Host, Producer, Script Writer, and Curator). The film was featured prominently on United Nations and United Nations agencies’ media platforms.
'I still Believe in Our City' created by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya with commentary from Carmelyn P. Malalis and Derrick L. Washington, PhD. Produced by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in partnership with the NYC Commission on Human Rights (Expert Intervention & Co-Script Writer).
Title: A Call for a New Social Contract: Centering Indigenous Cultural Expressions
Trailer for a film about the celebration of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, collaboration between UN Human Rights and UN Visitor Services (Co-Host, Producer, & Co-Script Writer).
