About Me

Born in Kingston; raised in Brooklyn; matured in South Florida; planted good will in St. Louis; returned to South Florida to continue raising a family. 

These three sentences encapsulate my origin, formative years and adult life. As an immigrant who came to the US at eight years old, I live in a place of double-consciousness, coined by W.E.B Dubois in regards to Black Folks "racialized oppression and disvaluation in a white-dominated society" (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/double-consciousness/). My double consciousness refers to my feeling, at times, as a native born American because of the many years I have lived in America and my immigrant identity because of my heritage which traces back to the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica. My immigrant identity often went unrecognized or noticed because I did not have an accent, and English is my first and only language. It wasn't until my conversion to Islam that my immigrant identity was pronounced. Thus when I think of my intersectionality I think of my race: Black, my gender: female and my faith/religion: Islam.  I am also a proud mother of three and a wife to one. Professionally, I remain an educator.  More specifically an educator of high school students with a focus on English Language Arts (ELA).

As a mother of three, a wife to one and a daughter to several, I realize that I have been fortunate in this life.