What you build tells the world who you are.

I've spent my life at the crossroads of healing and building — from classrooms in New Jersey to stages at Aspen Ideas, from Yoruba spiritual practice to venture-backed tech. Everything I do starts with one belief: healing is collective, cultural, and a right we all deserve.

How Healing Became the Mission

I grew up in New Jersey — but my education started long before I ever stepped into a classroom. I was raised in a family and a community that understood something the world is only now catching up to: healing doesn't happen in isolation. It happens in community, in culture, and in the quiet moments when someone says "I see you" and means it.

I became an educator because I believed in the power of those moments. Working in schools across New Jersey, I watched young people carry the weight of trauma, loss, and systemic harm — often without language for what they were feeling and without resources built with them in mind. And I saw myself in them. I had navigated my own depression, and the people who helped me heal weren't always therapists. They were teachers, coaches, elders — people who held space without being asked to.

That reality became the foundation for MindRight. I built it on a belief that has never wavered: healing is collective, it is cultural, and it is a right — not a luxury. But MindRight is only one expression of a much deeper calling. I am an initiated Ìyánífá in the Yoruba spiritual practice of Ifá and a trained herbalist. My spiritual practice isn't separate from my work — it is the root system beneath everything I build.

My path has taken me from Yale to Stanford, from classrooms in Newark to the stage at the Aspen Ideas Festival, from raising $1 million in venture capital as the first Black woman to do so in New Jersey to being featured in EBONY, ELLE, Business Insider, and NBC. But the accolade that means the most to me is this: people trust MindRight with their healing. That is sacred, and I never take it lightly.

MindRight Health

MindRight was built on the belief that healing is collective, cultural, and a right — not a privilege. The platform connects young people and communities to trained emotional support partners who share their lived experiences, their culture, and their language. Through text-based emotional support that meets people where they already are, MindRight is proving that mental health support doesn't have to look clinical to be powerful. It just has to feel real.

The Healing Underground

I created The Healing Underground because I needed a space that didn't exist yet — one that goes beneath the surface of mental health and into the ancestral wisdom, spiritual practices, and healing traditions that mainstream wellness has overlooked for too long. Each episode is an invitation to explore what it means to heal on your own terms: through culture, through community, and through the traditions that sustained our people long before therapy had a name.