Faculty Research Interests

• Person-centered being, doing, connecting, and facilitating
• Experiential learning and experiences
• Integrating mind, body, spirit, and environment in practical ways
• Bringing transpersonal skills to the everyday
• Identity/formulation of Black women and girls
• Women and Girls of Color and their many intersecting identities 
• How women and their collective actions will change the world
• Black daughter-mother dynamics

Behavioral Modification and Motivation & Attribution

My research agenda explores Black girls and women in P-20 educational and social contexts, college student development and success, and critical qualitative methods.

As a critical qualitative researcher, I am interested in using critical theory and intersectional scholarship to examine inequities and interlocking systems of oppression. My dissertation study, “I’m Not Your Mammy: Unearthing the Racially Gendered Experiences of Undergraduate Black Women Resident Assistants at Predominantly White Institutions.” was awarded the Rita Wolotkiewicz Prize in 2019 for its contribution to advancing scholarship on equity issues in education.

My most recent work was highlighted in the Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, Urban Education Policy Annuals, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, and The HBCU Times.

• Change management in workplace organizations
• Corporate culture and ethical leadership 
• How adults learn in the workplace
• Diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Human Resources Management 
• Black Greek Letter Organizations
• Employee Physical and Mental Health