As a Gates Millennium Scholar, she began with studying acting at Emerson College, then continued exploring arts in public health and education at Harvard University (Harvard Graduate School of Education) and Columbia University (Teachers College). Her leadership training as a RWJF Health Policy Research Scholar and her postdoctoral research appointment with the University of Florida’s Center for Arts in Medicine re-ignited her devotion to the healthful study and practice of Black feminisms, values-based inquiry, and facilitating community organizing and change. She currently co-stewards a public health home for poetry called “Poetry for the Public’s Health” with Health Promotion Practice and serves the Editorial Board of Arts in Health Perspectives.