Building pathways to power for women and underserved communities. Founder, writer, strategist. Tracking the throughline from West Philly to here.
A first-generation map from Ahoskie to West Philly to Spelman to Penn to here. The lineage, the formation, the work, and the throughline that makes the whole thing make sense.
Figures reflect program reach and portfolio scope across Motivate Lab and Thrive Philly.
I help institutions turn good intentions into systems that run. Not decks that sit on a shelf. Working models, real pricing, and operations that hold up after the launch.
Tiered pricing, freemium funnels, revenue and compensation modeling. I find where the value lives and build the model leadership can decide from.
CRMs, pipelines, project-management infrastructure, and the automations underneath. Industry-standard operations built without an enterprise budget.
Taking a program from one site to many. Recruitment, onboarding, and the operational backbone that lets it grow without breaking.
Focus groups, stakeholder listening, and qualitative and quantitative analysis translated into decisions, not just reports.
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I led a federal grant from start to finish. Not a piece of it. The whole arc, from design through delivery to close-out. The work put 52+ focus groups on the ground across 20 states, produced 3 publications, and stood up the largest student well-being survey in osteopathic medical education. I also co-authored both professional development courses the program is built around — the Resilient Mindsets in Medicine Faculty Course and the Student Support Professionals Course. Real research, real reach, real findings that moved the field.
Federal funding ends. When it does, the work usually ends with it. Not because it stopped working, but because the money ran out and no one built what came next.
I authored and secured a new direct-funded contract that moved the program off grant dependency onto a recurring institutional sales model. I designed how member colleges buy in, what they pay for, and how the revenue renews year over year, then built the sales process, pricing logic, and operational workflow underneath it.
A program that funds itself. It scaled to 32 colleges of osteopathic medicine and 200+ faculty, with reach across roughly 200,000 students, and a funding model built to outlast any single grant cycle.
I don't just run the program. I build the thing that keeps it alive after the first funder is gone.
I use AI as a working layer in my own day, building generative AI into Google Apps Script workflows to speed up document creation, reporting, analysis, and partner communication. It's infrastructure, not a headline.
And I teach it. At Thrive Philly, I train students on practical, responsible AI adoption as part of professional-readiness programming, so the people I serve aren't left behind by a tool that's reshaping the work they're preparing for.
Using it well and teaching it well are different skills. I do both.
For four years, I taught high school biology in Philadelphia — building a classroom rooted in culturally relevant pedagogy, belonging, and community. Science as a doorway, not a gate.
Born at the pivot of COVID — when community was told to pause, Philly STEMinist pressed play. Built for students who didn't have laptops or stable internet but did have a cellphone and a Wi-Fi signal to borrow. A reminder that learning doesn't stop because access does. Using what students had — bridging gaps to build futures through education.
Long-form on building, power, and rewriting shame into strategy. New pieces land when there's something worth saying.
Wayfinding, navigational capital, and the maps Black folk carry in our bones.
Before GPS, before highways, before anyone drew a line on a map for us, we knew the way. This is an essay about navigational capital — the inherited knowledge Black folk use to move through systems that were never built for us — and the quiet genius of finding home anyway.
Rewrite the shame. Hold your peach. Clock it.
Every founder carries a testimony. Most are taught to hide it. This is the argument for doing the opposite, and the practice it takes to turn shame into strategy and conditions into receipts.
Thrive Club on YouTube. Plus the short-form on TikTok. Everything that doesn't fit in a paragraph.
Strategy, community, and storytelling. Each pillar feeding the next.
The nonprofit closing wellness, education, and economic gaps across Philadelphia.
Support the work →On systems change, women's leadership, and educational equity. Featured for Black Girls Can's Pathway to Power Tour.
Book me to speak →Systems thinking, curriculum design, and educational equity — research translated into evidence-based solutions at scale.
See my work →Top Philadelphia Woman Entrepreneur — Immortal Vision spotlight. Plus selected features and coverage.
See coverage ↓A snapshot of the initiatives I'm leading and contributing to across systems, states, and disciplines.
Training medical school faculty across 11+ colleges of osteopathic medicine.
Year-long PD for Kentucky educators teaching gateway college courses.
System-wide implementation of AB 705, AB 1705, and ESS 23-08.
Keynotes, panels, and the rooms where the work shows up.
