She received her B.A. in Comparative World Literature from San Francisco State University. She writes poetry in English, French, and Swahili. In 2013 she was a featured poet in San Francisco as part of Lit Quake’s Lit Crawl and has published poetry in English & French in Forum Magazine (2013) and Cipactli (2015). She is currently pursuing a Master of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University with the goal of working in the public library to provide literacy programs for children, youth and adults.