About

I’m a first-year, assistant professor at Claflin University, an HBCU in South Carolina. My interests in decolonization stem from my family’s experiences with colonialism. My research focuses on integrating environmentalism with decolonialism, specifically in facilitating social and epistemic shifts that decolonize contemporary, Anglo colonial cultures with place-based, traditional and Indigenous cultures. I am also interested in how decolonization can be pursued in African diasporic communities. I have been an educator for fifteen years. I formerly taught history and English in secondary schools. I’ve also been involved with books to prisoners programs for fifteen years. I’m deeply committed to social and ecological justice and, in addition to teaching and writing, I love dogs, baking bread and running in the woods.