Welcome to my website! Here, you'll see me dig into topics such as:
Being a lawyer for the ppl; My massage therapy aspirations; Being a mental health professional Weed; Liberation; Ancestors; Recovering from academia; Working in academic LOL; Civil rights; Tarot; Pole Dance; Reparations; Beyonce; Justice; Healing; Play; Spirituality; Joy as resistance...and a whole lotta other things because life is divine and I'm a multidimensional bihh
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NOTE: Currently, this site is not an advertisement for legal or mental health services.
University of Michigan
Degree: Juris Doctor
Master of Social Work (Social Policy and Eval; Communities and Systems)
Honors: 2018 Alden J. “Butch” Carpenter Memorial Scholar
2018 Dykema Diversity Scholar
Activities: Michigan Journal of Race and Law - Editor in Chief
Student Rights Project - Student Advocate/Board Member
Prison Creative Arts Project - Facilitator
Black Law Student Association - Board Member
Admitted to practice law in Illinois.
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University of Pennsylvania
Degree: B.A. in English Literature, Minor in French Studies
Honors: Rainbow Push Scholar
Activities: Hype Fusion Dance Team
F-Word Literary Magazine
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Francis W. Parker School
9th-12th
Guggenheim Elementary
K-8th *Shoutout Guggenheim, the school where I was most nourished by the entire community - the teachers, janitors, office staff, and cafeteria workers. It was tragically included in the racist, mass closures of public schools by the City of Chicago in 2012.
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Currently: ​
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I'm a Clinical Fellow at the Community Justice & Civil Rights Clinic at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.
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I'm a massage therapy student at the Soma Institute.
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I'm a Hive Queen/co-curator of the Swarm artist residency.
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I'm an InterPlay & Theater of the Oppressed Facilitator.
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Wondering about Interplay? It was developed in California by Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter in Oakland California. InterPlay is improvisational movement, storytelling, and sound in order to bring full expression to the body and peace and communication in the community. InterPlay workshops are great for stress relief, communication development, bring playfulness and laughter.
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Past Experience​​
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I worked as a litigation associate at a corporate law firm in Chicago.
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I'm a research assistant for historian Rebecca Scott. I'm helping her build a class on social justice movements!
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I volunteered for Chicago Community Bond Fund.
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I taught U.S. Constitutional History to UMichigan undergrads - Spring 2020
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I worked as a student attorney for the MLaw Community Economic and Development Clinic - Jan. 2019-May 2019
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I interned with Michigan Children's Law Center - Aug. 2016- Aug 2017
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Worked on a multidisciplinary team of judges, lawyers, social workers, and therapists on a project to reunite families with children under 4y/o in the Wayne County foster care system.
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Crafted a program analysis project to present to the team for program improvement and case referral.
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I co-facilitated weekly workshops at Cooper Street Correctional Facility as a member of UMichigan's Prison Creative Arts Project - Jan 2017 - August 2017
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These workshops entailed Interplay, Theater of the Oppressed, and more general theater games with a group of 20 men. ​
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Co-curated and MC'd a social justice arts fair entitled: In Our Space: Using Art to Name Our Reality at the University of Michigan School of Social Work - March 2017
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I founded and ran the anti street-harassment organization Courage Campaign: CTA! - July 2014 - July 2016
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We did a flashmob; advocated at Chicago Transit Authority meetings; collaborated with youth program Girl World; and contributed to the push for the Chicago Transit Authority to put up anti-harassment ads!
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Teaching testimonial: I wanted to properly thank you for how you taught your section of Constitutional History this past semester. I know I wasn’t the most vocal student, and while this is a sorry excuse for not voicing my opinions in class, it was because I was never challenged to think the way you made me before. An example that I think about very often, is when you asked us to take the founding fathers off of the pedestal that our history books give them. Your reasoning made complete sense, but the first time I tried to see them in a different light, I struggled. I had known that there are many sides to history, but no one ever made me actually look at and discuss the different sides. That way of thinking is a skill, and one that I have found to be of great importance during times like these.THANK YOU for introducing me to that way of thinking. While having made me uncomfortable at first, it is what is allowing me to feel the guilt and compassion that I always knew was out there, but never quite knew how to reach. Not to sound totally cheesy, but if all teachers emphasized perspective like you, the world would be a much better place. Truly, I can’t thank you enough. - UM undergrad student.