the visionary

As a Public Health Practitioner, Community Leader, and Educator, I’ve sat at too many tables where oppression was being served. Organizations touted “doing the work” while consistently producing inequity and harm. I created ReconstructionInstitute to help people understand:

  1. The System is Rigged

  2. We All Play a Role

  3. Creating a Just and Humane World is Our Collective Responsibility

My work sits at the intersection of public health, policy, systems analysis, and power. I focus on helping individuals, institutions, and communities understand how inequity is produced—not by accident, but by design—and how those systems can be transformed to serve the collective good.

I developed the Reconstruction Framework to move people beyond surface-level reform toward structural change.

This framework is the foundation of ReconstructionInstitute’s flagship course, Reconstruction: Power, Equity, and the Future of American Systems, as well as our work with municipalities, organizations, faith institutions, start-ups, and community groups.

I use the reconstruction framework to create programs and policies designed to produce equitable outcomes.

My career spans the public, nonprofit, and government sectors— supporting regulatory oversight and policy initiatives that ensure equitable healthcare access and affordability. My prior roles include leadership in HIV/STI prevention, elder care and memory support, and community-based health navigation across the Boston area. I integrate evidence-based Public Health models with justice-centered leadership and invite institutions and individuals to recognize the sacredness of all human beings— and to reconstruct systems to honor them.

I bring clarity to complex systems and help audiences connect history, policy, and institutional design to present-day outcomes.

the vision

ReconstructionInstitute envisions a future in which institutions are designed to serve the collective good rather than concentrate power, and where systemic oppression is actively dismantled through accountable governance, equitable policy, and public participation.

We envision a national registry of organizations and institutions that have undergone structural reconstruction—entities that have examined how power operates within their systems, rebuilt governance and decision-making structures, and aligned their policies and practices with equity, transparency, and public accountability. This registry serves both as a standard of integrity and as a public resource, demonstrating what institutional transformation can look like in practice.

ReconstructionInstitute also envisions a policy landscape shaped by legislation that addresses the structural roots of inequity. We work to support, develop, and advance laws that dismantle systemic oppression and strengthen systems that promote health, dignity, and shared prosperity. In doing so, we partner with and support policymakers who are aligned with our mission and committed to transformative, justice-centered governance.

the approach

Much of my work challenges the assumption that inequity can be solved through incremental reform alone.

I emphasize:

  • Structural and historical analysis

  • Power, governance, and decision-making systems

  • Public health as a lens for understanding population-level harm

  • Accountability, repair, and redistribution

Speaking, Panels & Public Engagements

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I am available for panels, keynote talks, lectures, and facilitated discussions with institutions, conferences, faith communities, universities, municipalities, and community organizations.

My speaking style is grounded, direct, and systems-focused, with an emphasis on translating complex ideas into actionable insight.

I stand on the shoulders of black women leaders who came before ME, AND use their passion for justice and civil rights as fuel to tell the truth.

topics i cover

Power & Systems

  • How power operates within American systems

  • Why inequity is structural, not accidental

  • Moving from reform to reconstruction

  • Institutional design and decision-making

Public Health & Policy

  • Structural determinants of health

  • Public health as a tool for systems change

  • Policy design and population-level outcomes

  • Health equity beyond individual behavior

Systemic Oppression

  • Structural racism and systemic oppression

  • Historical roots of modern inequities

  • How systems are designed to exclude, exploit, and protect power

  • Accountability versus performative equity

Governance & Institutions

  • Governance, boards, and institutional accountability

  • Municipal systems and local government equity

  • Faith institutions and moral responsibility in systems change

  • Building institutions aligned with justice

Civic Engagement & Movement Building

  • Civic engagement beyond participation

  • Coalition building and collective power

  • Community accountability and co-ownership

  • The limits of charity and the necessity of justice

Reparative & Redistributive Frameworks

  • Reparations and reparative policy

  • Wealth, extraction, and economic systems

  • Redistribution as a public health intervention

audiences & settings

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  • Conferences and convenings

  • Towns, cities, and municipal governments

  • Faith-based and interfaith organizations

  • Universities and academic programs

  • Nonprofits, foundations, and coalitions

  • Start-ups and emerging institutions

education

Tufts University School of Medicine

  • Master of Public Health: Health Services Management and Policy

Depauw university

  • Bachelor of arts: Global Health, French and francophone studies

let’s create space for truth and change

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