How I Came to This Work

The truth is, so much of what I know didn’t come from a textbook, it came from living in the in-between. From noticing how systems shape us long before we even have the language to question them.

My background in Anthropology, along with my years in the classroom and my dual Master’s in Childhood Education and Students with Disabilities, gave me words for what I had already been witnessing. It helped me name the ways culture, identity, neurodivergence, and learning environments start shaping us from the very beginning.

Working closely with families navigating advocacy and system-based challenges, I saw how fragmented care doesn’t just exist on paper, it shows up in real, everyday life. And I also saw what becomes possible when families are met with dignity, cultural awareness, and true continuity.

I’m naturally curious, and I know what it feels like to be read quickly but misunderstood deeply. I know how often difference gets mistaken for something that needs to be fixed. That lived experience grounds how I show up, trauma-informed, yes, but also deeply respectful of the questions, instincts, and inner knowing families already carry.

I was raised in Harlem by my dad and a whole village that helped shape me. Siblings who showed up, neighborhood mothers who corrected and protected, and educators who saw something in me before I could see it in myself.

Grief reshaped me. Losing my father at seventeen changed how I understand loss, not just as something that takes, but also something that transforms. While Western medicine supported parts of my healing, it was ancestral remembrance and spiritual reconnection, through practices like Reiki and ATRs, that helped me return to myself and rebuild trust in my body.

Birth work felt like a natural extension of all of this because the way we enter the world, how families are supported in those early moments, and how children are later received in educational spaces… none of it is separate. It’s all connected.

Solful Truths was born from that return. And it continues to be a space where care is reimagined, where we move together, and where families are supported in ways that actually feel whole.