About Me

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I am the descendant of great educators and global activists and merge those two passions through my work as an educator and administrator in international education and development.  

As an international educator I have lead major units and projects at mutiple universities, overseeing  international student services, exchange programs, dual degree programs, admissions and recruitment, academic advising and engagement, area studies, and international development initiatives.   I have also served as a Senior International Officer (SIO).  I have held positions at Chicago State University, a minority serving institutions, Ball State University, a mid-major university, and the University of Michigan, a internationally renoun university.

My research areas include examining the relationship between the public sector, private sector, and non-governmental organizations as a model for international development in developing nations. I have taught courses in African History and Developing Area Studies Programs.  

As an expert in international development, I served tenures as the Assistant Program Director for the USAID-TLMP/Ghana, a Textbooks and Learning Materials Program funded for $18.5 million by the Africa Education Initiative (AEI) and implemented by USAID, which focused on challenges relating to a lack of textbooks and other learning materials in Ghana.  I also served as the program coordinator of a $3.5 million USAID-funded South African capacity-building grant called the South Africa Area Initiative (USAID-SAAI).

I hold a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree with an emphasis in International Business / Trade, International Law and International Intellectual Property and a Master’s degree in Public Administration with an emphasis on public and private partnerships within the context of International Development, both from Indiana University-Bloomington. I received my Bachelor of Arts degree (cum laude) from Hampton University, with an emphasis on pre- and post-colonial African history. 

I am the child of a former Peace Corps Director (Fiji, Tanzania, and Swaziland), and have lived, worked, studied, and visited four continents and over 20 countries.

I was honored to be a 2019 IECHE Fellow for the 8th Annual International Exhibition & Conference In Higher Education in Saudi Arabia and a 2015-2016 Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) Presidential Fellow and a current member of the Public Policy Committee and former member of the AIEA Strategic Issues Committee.