She has worked with a non-governmental organization (NGO) with rapporteur status to the United States and has done research and published writing on post-colonial feminism in West Africa. She is fluent in the official language of Senegal, french, having earned an undergraduate degree in French from Portland State University, graduating cum laude. She was still in high school when she published her first article, entitled “Criminal Justice” in the Concord Review (2000, Vol. 10, #4).