She earned her Ph.D. in Nursing from Johns Hopkins University and B.S.N. from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her program of research seeks to reduce cardiovascular health inequities in African descent populations through community-engaged research. She received the American Heart Association(AHA) Martha N. Hill New Investigator Award in 2016 and is a member of the Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing of the AHA. She received a KL2 Mentored Career Development Award in 2017. She won the best abstract award in the databased-category at the 2015 PCNA Annual Symposium. She has served as a member of the PCNA Abstract Review Committee since 2015 and currently serves as the PCNA representative on the writing committee for the AHA/ACC Hypertension Measures Set Update. She is also a member of the 2018 PCNA Annual Symposium Planning Committee.