I earned my BA at the University of Virginia, MS at Columbia University, and PhD in Clinical Sexology. My research focuses on identifying, adapting, and integrating clinical reasoning methods into clinical sexology, with the ultimate goal of helping sex therapists improve the quality of care their clients receive. In 2021, I was awarded a research fellowship from the California Institute of Integral Studies under Dr. Penny Harvey, where I explored sexual preferences across sexual orientations. My research is the first to propose a collection of sexology-informed clinical reasoning principles. It is also the first to adapt Dr. Bernard Charlin’s Learning by Concordance (LBC) model from French to English. In 2022, I collaborated with Dr. Charlin to construct the only LBC lesson plan approved for sex therapists and presented my research findings at the Black Sexuality and Educators Conference in Montreal, Canada, the Society for Sex Therapy and Research and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

In addition to my academic and professional experience, I am deeply passionate about social justice work. In 2022, she was appointed to the Board of Directors for the Community Investment Collaborative, or CIC, a nonprofit organization that provides financing and support to under-resourced entrepreneurs (especially women and people of color). In 2023 I was nominated to serve on the steering committee for Central Virginia Clinicians of Color Network.