ABOUT THE FOUNDER

Leslie creates at the intersection of Black cultural aesthetics and religion, and is based in Silver Spring, MD. Her interest in global contemplative movements and sacred scripture continues to lead her on a sobering journey as a multidisciplinary artist and academic scholar, inviting folks into an assemblage of texts, images, and ancestral wisdom. Her writing and making thus become a pathway for cultural re-memory and an avenue to explore the possibilities that emerge when traditions and practices are reimagined for personal and collective transformation. 

Leslie has performed on stages from New York to California, and her visual art has been showcased in exhibitions at venues such as the Dallas Bathhouse Cultural Center in Dallas, TX, and the Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans, LA, with a forthcoming academic publication debut set for 2027. Through deep reflection, retrieval, and repair, her goal in this work is to invoke and inspire joyful yet focused intentions to be our best co-creative selves—to live in abundance, balance, and reciprocity—because there’s Plenty Good Room for folks to do so.

For Leslie’s academic CV, please click here. For her artist CV, please click here.

To download a copy of the contemplative meditation resource guide that informs PGR Studios’ mission, please click here.