EDUCATION

DMin Howard University School of Divinity, Washington, DC (in progress)

MA Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY (2025) 

  • Thesis: “Oracles from a Seleucia Cave: The Asceticism of Thecla as Contemplative Eco Poetics”

MTS Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University, Ft Worth, TX (2020) 

  • Resident Student, Borderlands Institute, El Paso, TX (2019)

  • Thesis: “Black Women’s Suffering and Art: Womanist Explorations of Religion and Theater”

BS in Communications, Paul Quinn College, Dallas, TX (2016)

Study Abroad Student, Research Institute of Swahili Studies, Mombasa, Kenya (2011)

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

2025

Presenter, “Imitatio Mary: The Ascetic Resistance of  Jesus’ Mama” (selected for the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2025)

Presenter, “Performing Ase’: 20th c Black Women Playwrights and Ancestor Spirit Veneration” (selected for the International Society for Contemplative Research Conference, Durham, NC, in November 2025)

Presenter, “Life We Do: Ntozake Shange and Black Aesthetic Interiority,” (selected for the American Society of Aesthetics, Eastern Division Conference in Philadelphia, PA)

Presenter, “The Nature of Asceticism: An Ecological Reading of the Acts of Paul and Thecla,” (selected for “Religion on the Plate: Critical Perspectives on Food and Religion” Graduate Conference at Columbia University in New York, NY)


2024

Presenter, “Conjuring Interiority: Womanist Reflections on Ancestor Veneration, Social Media, and a Philosophy of Aesthetics,” (selected for the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA)

PUBLICATIONS

2026

Apophatic Art (forthcoming)

RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS

2025 Zen Mountain Monastery Resident in Training, Mt Tremper, NY

2025 MOtiVE Dance Residency, Brooklyn, NY 

2024 American Academy of Religion, Luce-AAR Advancing Public Scholarship Grant

2023-24 Student Artistic Fellowship at the Movement Lab at the Milstein Center at Barnard College, New York, NY

2021 Forum for Theological Exploration, Ministry Exploration and Mentor Grant

2021 Marion J and Marie N Brooks Education Grant Fund

2020 Forum for Theological Exploration, DISCERN Initiative, Atlanta GA (remote setting due to COVID)

2015 Young People For, Youth Leadership Development Fellowship, Washington DC (national)/San Francisco, CA (regional)