She received her PhD in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and completed a Post-Doctoral fellowship in the area of “Interventions to Prevent and Manage Chronic Illness” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on improving health outcomes of Black women and youth through the implementation of physical activity interventions. She believes that promoting better health habits in adolescence will lead to better health outcomes in adulthood. She is also a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, with over 30 years of nursing experience.