Currently she is Interim Department Chair for the Department of History and Philosophy and Coordinator of the Oasis, the Mindfulness/Meditation Center on VSU’s campus. For twelve years she was Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Race Relations, and continues to teach, research, lecture, and implement programs in the areas of social justice and contemplative practices. She advises BASYC, the LGBTQ student advocacy organization on campus and is on the board of the Southern Initiative Algebra Project. She has studied at the Intercultural Communications Institute and the U.S. Holocaust and Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and was awarded a fellowship for the teaching of contemplative practices by the American Council of Learned Societies.