How I Came to This Work

The truth is, much of what I know came from living in the in-between and seeing how systems shape us before we even have the words to question them. My academic background in Anthropology, along with my classroom experience and dual Master’s in Childhood Education and Students with Disabilities, deepened that awareness and gave me language for what I had already been witnessing. It shaped my understanding of how culture, identity, neurodivergence, and learning environments influence development from the very beginning.

Working alongside families navigating advocacy and system-based challenges, I saw how fragmented care shows up not just in systems, but in people’s lives. Additionally, I saw what becomes possible when families are met with dignity, cultural awareness, and real continuity.

As a curious spirit, I know what it means to be read quickly, misunderstood deeply, and how easily systems mistake difference for something that needs to be fixed. That lived experience grounds the way I show up trauma-informed, but also really respectful of the questions, instincts, and knowings families already carry.

Growing up in Harlem, I was raised by my single dad and the village that surrounded us. 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 shifted how I understand loss as both something that takes and 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 come back to myself and rebuild trust in my own body.

Birth work became a natural extension of this path because the way we enter the world, the way families are supported in those early stages, and the way children are later received in educational spaces aren’t separate experiences. They’re all part of the same continuum.

Solful Truths came from that return. And it continues to live as a practice of reimagining what care can look like when we move together.