[5] During that time, she co-curated the exhibit Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art with African collection curator Silvia Forni and Haitian-born researcher Dominique Fontaine.
[2][6] Featuring photographs from the Archives of Ontario and Brock University's Archives & Special Collections, the exhibit focused on the lives of descents of Black refugees and formally enslaved people from the United States living in southern Ontario during the mid-to-late 1800s.
[3][9] As photography curator, she played an integral role in the acquisition of the Montgomery Collection, which consists of more than 3,500 of historical images documenting life in the Caribbean islands.
[1][14] Crooks was one of three individuals chosen as a jury sitter for the 2020 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators.
[15] In this role, she was tasked with selecting an artist to receive the prize of a space for their submitted exhibition or honorarium.