[19][20] In 2019, he helped create the Sundance Institute exhibition Still Here,[21][22] an immersive multimedia installation about mass incarceration, erasure, and gentrification in Harlem, New York.
"[25] One of his projects involved designing an education intake and assessment model for youth released from Rikers Island and Spofford Detention Facility.
Furthermore, he "wrote the curriculum for and ran the pilot for a career certificate training program for youth leaving foster care in San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano counties.
During this time, Wallace co-founded Flourish Agenda[27] whose mission included outreach to "black youth in schools and community organizations to help overcome racial trauma and provide tools that are necessary for success."
[25] Wallace's writings began to appear in outlets such as The Toast in 2016, for which he wrote the in-depth history piece "The Negro Motorist Green Book and Black America's Perpetual Search For A Home.
[32] Starting in March 2016, he spent a year and six months as an MTV News Music Desk columnist,[3] writing on subjects ranging from Prince,[33] John Coltrane,[34] white rappers, and Aaliyah,[35] to Bernie Worrell,[36] De La Soul,[37] G-Eazy,[38] and Meghan Trainor.
[45] Also in 2019, Wallace helped the Golden State Warriors' Andre Iguodala write the book The Sixth Man: A Memoir, which ranked as a New York Times bestseller.