Equity Thought Leader
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I am a critical race and gender theorist and advisor that has built a career spanning higher education, community organizing, and government relations. I am an interdisciplinary scholar and a social justice activist who produces generative scholarship that reaches far beyond the walls of academia and well into transformative ministry and community healing. My intellectual, creative and spiritual works grow out of my life as an African American woman engaged with liberation practices.
As a dedicated servant-leader, I hope to genuinely bring inclusion, innovation, and equity to every position and opportunity I encounter.
Since 2008, I have built a progressive career in higher education beginning as a tenure track assistant professor, to earning tenure and serving as chair of the Women’s and Ethnic Studies Program, to becoming the chief diversity officer at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs until my departure in 2021. Simultaneously, I developed a career in community and government relations with local, regional, and federal stakeholders. As a community organizer, I contributed dramatically in changing the discourse and even legislation throughout the Pikes Peak region and Colorado.
In 2018, after my first congressional run, I served on the transition team for the incoming Attorney General, Phil Weiser bringing concerns for police accountability and transparency to the forefront that helped shape and pass Colorado’s 2020 Senate Bill 20-217 regarding Law Enforcement Integrity and Accountability.
Most recently, I served as the Director of Government and Community Affairs at Chicago State University. In this position, I held a leading role in expanding the branding of Predominantly Black Institutions in the complex fabric of higher education on behalf of the university and other national coalition member institutions. In every role, I have served as a trusted thought partner for executive leadership.
Ph. D. American Studies, Purdue University 2002-2007
M. A. English Literature, Purdue University 2000-2002
B. A. English Literature, Clark Atlanta University 1996-2000
