About Me

My work lives at the intersections of Black feminist thought, spirituality, storytelling, and cultural memory. I am a writer, scholar, educator, and publisher committed to exploring how narrative functions as a site of remembrance, healing, and knowledge production within Black communities.

I hold a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Minnesota with an emphasis in Culture and Teaching and African American Studies. My research focuses on the experiences of Black women in higher education and examines how spiritual frameworks and narrative practices shape Black women’s intellectual and personal lives.

Grounded in the framework of Endarkened Feminism, my scholarship explores writing as both intellectual inquiry and sacred practice. Through essays, creative nonfiction, and collaborative literary projects, I examine the ways storytelling helps us make meaning, preserve memory, and imagine new possibilities for ourselves and our communities.

I am the founder of Aya Collective Publishing, an independent press dedicated to amplifying the voices of Black women writers and cultivating spaces for collective storytelling. Through Aya Collective, I have developed collaborative publishing projects centered on testimony, memory, and lived experience. These projects bring together writers whose work engages themes of health equity, spirituality, grief, resilience, and liberation.

My publications include Incomplete Stories: On Loss, Love, and Hope and the collaborative anthology Finding the Voice Within. My scholarly and creative writing has appeared in Women, Gender, and Families of Color, Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place, and Community, The Conversation, and the St. Paul Almanac. I have also presented my work at conferences including the American Educational Research Association, the National Women’s Studies Association, and the Association of Black Women in Higher Education.

Beyond writing and publishing, I bring over fifteen years of experience in community engagement, racial equity initiatives, and higher education programming in the Twin Cities. My current projects explore sacred writing practices, Black women’s narrative archives, and the role of storytelling in preserving cultural memory across generations.