Blackbird Doula & Coaching

About Me

As a holistic doula and ethical peer support specialist, I hold a strong belief that both social and erotic identity should coexist without exclusivity. As a Black, queer, and disabled womanist ethicist, I have spent my time working to break down the barriers that can impede fullness of life and liberative self-determination.

​I have 10+ years of teaching consent education, social emotional learning, Black identity formation and music as self expression. I specialize in queer trauma-informed care, reproductive health, cult deconstruction and kink/BDSM advocacy.

I graduated from Pfeiffer University with a Bachelor’s of Religion and Practical Theology where I specialized in youth and young spiritual identity development. This led me to womanist ethics and sociology where I studied the correlation between communal care, harm reduction and theological practice. I went on to get a Master’s of Divinity in Womanist and Feminist Ethics and a Master’s of Social Justice with a focus on peer support care. Both degrees allowed me to study my favorite subject: Women in Hip-Hop and Black femme identity formation.

Through both degrees I cut my teeth in the field under many names: youth and young adult pastor, community organizer, homelessness and addiction peer support, curriculum developer and resident meme-maker. My clients know that I can understand issues like addition, poverty, sexual trauma, healthcare advocacy and queer identity because I have experienced them in my life as well as in my studies. As peer support, part of my job relies on the connecting of life experiences to myself and my clients, this is paramount to me. I deeply believe that the only way we'll go far is if we go together.