I am an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. I hold a PhD and master's degree in French and Francophone Studies with a designated emphasis in African Diaspora Studies from the University of California, Davis, and a Bachelor’s in French and Spanish with a minor in Psychology from The State University of New York Brockport.

As an interdisciplinary scholar, my work bridges the fields of African Diaspora studies, Caribbean studies, Cultural studies, and Creolistics. I focus on a transnational approach to the study of Black popular culture in the francophone and the anglophone Caribbean at the intersections of language, identity, and power. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, I examine race, gender, sexuality, and the co-naturalization of race and Creole languages. At the core of my research is my passion for Creole languages in the Caribbean basin.