She graduated from Spelman College in 2001 with a B.S. in Mathematics and a minor in Philosophy. She received both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from The University of Memphis and does research in the areas of Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Race and Postcolonial Theory. Her published articles on Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas and the philosophy of race can be found in Levinas Studies, Research in Phenomenology, the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, as well as Continental Philosophy Review. Her book, Moments of Disruption: Levinas, Sartre and the Question of Transcendence, was published in December 2013 with SUNY Press. Her current book project is on the relationship between creolization and nationalism.