How I Came to This Work

Much of what I know came from living within the gaps and studying how systems shape us, way before we have language for it. My academic path in Anthropology and my dual Master’s in Childhood Education and Students with Disabilities deepened my understanding of how culture, identity, neurodivergence, and learning environments influence development from the very beginning.

Working in schools and alongside families navigating advocacy and system-based challenges, I witnessed how fragmented care impacts both parents and children. I also witnessed what becomes possible when families are supported with dignity, cultural awareness, and continuity.

As a creative spirit, I understand what it means to be interpreted by systems before being understood by them. That lived experience grounds my trauma-informed approach and my respect for the questions families carry.

Growing up in Harlem, I was raised not only by my father, but by siblings who showed up after school, by neighborhood mothers who corrected and protected, and by educators who saw me before I saw myself.

Grief reshaped me. After losing my father at the tender age of seventeen, I came to understand loss not only as something that takes, but something that transforms. While Western medicine supported parts of my healing, it was ancestral remembrance and spiritual reconnection through practices like Reiki that helped me return to my body and trust myself again.

Birth work became a natural extension of this lens because the way we enter the world, the way families are supported in early development, and the way children are later received in educational spaces are not separate experiences. They are part of the same continuum.

Solful Truths was born from that return and lives as a practice of reimagining what care can look like when we move together.