Chaseedaw Giles

Chaseedaw has acted in numerous theater and independent film projects in the D.C. area, as well as modeled for various photo projects, some landing in BuzzFeed and NPR. As a hip-hop artist and model, Chaseedaw creates space, and conveys the experience of existing in spaces that aren't built for people like her. She has performed songs from her hip-hop EP, 'Daydreaming' around the east coast, and served as creative director and producer of the accompanying music videos. As a culture writer, Chaseedaw elevates marginalized voices into the mainstream. Her stories have appeared in national and local publications as well as magazines. The characters she builds in her scripts are people often read about in newspapers, but relegated to statistics buried underneath headlines about gun violence, the opioid crisis, and the displacing effects of current day gentrification - or left out of the news all together. She writes with empathy about what it's like to live those statistics hoping to raise these issues from subculture to mainstream conversation.