If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.

I am passionate about supporting people and organizations to increase their capacity to engage in the good work. As a lifelong learner with experience facilitating groups that range from leaders at Fortune 500 companies to September kindergarteners, I aim to build community, foster creative collaboration, and improve educational opportunities in the Bay Area and beyond. Growing up Black and middle class in Berkeley, California provided me a foundational intersection that early on sparked difficult questions of race, belonging, resource distribution, leadership, equity, and solidarity–questions that I have been pursuing vigorously ever since.

I studied the African Diaspora and Colonial Americas at Columbia University, graduating magna cum laude with a BA in history in 2009. In 2015, I was awarded the Urban Scholar Fellowship to attend the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where I earned my MA studying community engagement, peace education, and curriculum development. The following year I was a Scholar in Residence at the MindKind Institute for Mindful Leadership in New York before returning home to the Bay Area.

I am obsessed with Black progress. I believe that if we can successfully eliminate barriers to success for our most vulnerable students--in America, Black children--we can successfully support the needs of any student. As the Executive Director of Urban Ed Academy, I support a team obsessed with one mission: ensuring that every student in San Francisco has one Black male teacher in their lifetime.

Prior to moving to San Francisco, I worked on racial equity issues in education in D.C. and Sacramento. I am an active member of the New York State Bar Association, hold a Juris Doctor degree from the American University Washington College of Law, and received my Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Michigan.