ORIGIN STORY

I am a journalist by trade. I worked as a television news producer in markets across Texas and Florida for 11 years. During that time I won two Emmy awards and an Associated Press award before leaving the industry in 2019.

When I left television, I freelanced for several publications for three years including The Washington Post, Essence, Vox, The Bitter Southerner, She Knows and more.

Selected Articles

  • Desmond Meade, right, is accompanied by his daughter, Xcellence Meade, center, and his wife, Sheena Meade, inside the Orange County Supervisor of Elections Office as he registers to vote after ex-felons regained their voting rights in Florida.

    Florida: The Swing State And Its New 1.6 Million Swing Voters

    photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack for the Washington Post via Getty Images

    Read on Essence

  • Alice Walker talks about why she doesn't think about her legacy as a writer

    photo courtesy of Alice Walker

    Read on Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

  • Beans & Rice: More Than a Poor Man’s Meal

    photo by Danny Culbert

    Read on Bitter Southerner

  • The Spirits of the American Beach

    photo courtesy of The American Beach Museum

    read on Bitter Southerner

  • COVID-19 has made the overlooked Black maternal health crisis even more vital to address

    photo by Andre Adjahoe on Unsplash

    Read on Upworthy

  • Marriage Is the Ultimate ‘Entanglement’

    photo by Git Stephen Gitau/Pexels; image design by Ashley Britton/SheKnows

    Read on She Knows
  • The Lower Ninth Ward is a shell of its former self, with fewer homes and fewer people.

    Katrina battered Black New Orleans. Then the recovery did it again.

    photo by Ricky Carioti courtesy of the Washington Post

    Read on the Washington Post

  • Ax Handle Saturday

    photo courtesy of the City of Jacksonville

    Read on Bitter Southerner

  • Black Moms Speak Out On Being Ignored, Dismissed, & Discriminated Against by Doctors

    photos by Maskot/Getty Images, Emmanuel Faure/Getty Images, Delmaine Donson/Getty Images courtesy of She Knows

    Read on She Knows

  • This Father Had to Turn His Pain into Purpose After Losing His Wife in Childbirth

    photos by Amorn Suriyan/Getty Images, CandyRetriever/Getty Images, Shannon Fagan/Getty Images, Prostock-Studio/Getty Images courtesy of She Knows

    Read on She Knows