ABOUT.

I recently graduated from the University of Florida, where I was a Foreign Language Area Studies Scholar for Haitian Creole and a Mellon Foundation Scholar in African American Studies. After graduation, I continue to dedicate significant time to facilitating Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) with Kiskeya Youth and the Black Girlhood Collaborative, led by Dr. Taryrn Brown. In 2024, I received a $10,000 Projects for Peace grant to co-lead a youth-led educational program with youth in the Dominican Republic (Cabarete, Batey Libertad, and Sabana Larga) along with four co-leaders.

After five years of working with undocumented youth in the Dominican Republic, girls in Florida’s juvenile justice system alternative schools, and children detained in the District of Columbia, my purpose is to equip and position youth in the U.S., UK, Canada, and Caribbean–particularly youth at-risk of losing their liberty–to change laws and community issues that harm them most directly through YPAR, legal literacy workshops, and legal defense.