[3] She is a consultant for Forecast Public Art and the Hennepin Theatre Trust, as well as the gallery coordinator for the Urban Research and Outreach Engagement Center at the University of Minnesota.
[3] In 2017, she participated in Poetry of Resistance and Change, where her work was featured in large scale on the side of public buildings.
This project revolved around the Rondo neighborhood of St. Paul, which was a thriving Black community from the 1930s until it was torn apart by the construction of Interstate 94 in 1955.
[2][4][10] The highway displaced hundreds of residents and businesses; one in every eight African Americans in St. Paul lost a home to the construction.
[3] After the shooting of Philando Castile during a traffic stop in 2016, Sullivan Janzen found herself wondering "Why is it that the only time the media comes to talk about us is when we are suffering from grief and experiencing loss?"