There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.

As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.

"Black culture" is ready for whatever. I sense some momentum and excitement around black artists (especially in comedy, which is where most of my own art resides), really pushing the bounds of what has generally been expected as black. I don't think it's a revolution so much as an exposure of what has always been there, and now that the production and distribution means are more accessible, people can more easily find each other.

Mostly I try to be the best example of me that I can be.

By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.

I don't know that I'm post-anything. I'd like to think maybe I'm post-bullshit.

When I look at what I'm doing today, I see [the] roots in my college life. I was the online editor of my college paper and an active member of the Harvard Computer Society. I abandoned a summer internship at the Washington Post due to injury and instead did theatre. I found my comedic voice through satirical newsletters in college.