T. Roberts
Researcher, insights analyst, & founder. Recent projects explore digital accessibility within cultural spaces. Other interests include rural visual culture, self-taught art, and the history of country music.
KIOSK Projects
- Developing a multidisciplinary art gallery, project space, and curatorial platform in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood.
- Facilitating the exchange of ideas, techniques, and creative practices within community spaces.
- Connecting creators and audiences through exhibitions, gatherings, and technology while amplifying under-recognized voices.
Logly
- Building digital resources to help museums promote accessibility and bridge the gap between audience and institution.
- Developing new methods for distributing interpretive materials and engaging visitors through technology.
- Learn more at https://logly.world
Product & Data Strategy
- Analyzing user metrics, feedback channels, and external narratives to identify opportunities to improve customer journey and brand perception.
- Directing strategic interventions in marketing and performance, optimizing campaigns and managing long-term brand goals.
- Specializing in designing user-centered analytics experiences that streamline data exploration, helping teams make better decisions.
- Collaborating with engineering teams to deliver technical solutions that address customer needs while balancing business goals and system constraints.
Select Experience
Amazon.com, The Oklahoma Publishing Company, ProTrainings, Poppy Flowers
Personal Projects
- Ongoing study of the history of country-western music, which began in support of my bachelor’s thesis at the University of Oklahoma and continues to shape my preferences at record stores and playlist selections.
- "Boys ’Round Here: Depictions of Rurality in Country-Western Music.” Study-in-Depth Capstone, University of Oklahoma, April 26, 2020.
- "The Centrality of Whiteness in Country Music's Authenticity Framework.” Paper presented at the 2021 SEMSP Virtual Conference, hosted by the Society for Ethnomusicology Southern Plains Chapter at Dallas International University, April 10, 2021.
- Supporting the exhibiting and scholarship of self-taught, vernacular, and traditional art.
- Co-organizer, "ART SCHOOL JERRY: A Selection of Student Work from Port-au-Prince.” KIOSK Projects, Chicago, October 19, 2024.
- Member, Young Professionals Board, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (since July 2022).
- Meandering graduate coursework in American Studies at Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma (since 2020).
Header shows indirect percussion, a method used for making petroglyphs. Icons inspired by petroglyphs documented in Early Manifestations of Mississippian Iconography in Middle Mississippi Valley Rock-Art and Signal Hill Petroglyphs documentation from NPS.