I became a middle school principal in Baltimore City Public Schools at twenty five. For years after that, I kept building leaders inside school systems, and later at the KIPP Foundation, developing thousands of educators and administrators. And somewhere in the middle of doing that work well, I felt a different kind of call.

That call led me to found Lead for Liberation first, work centered on helping organizations and school districts rebuild their cultures through the lens of liberation, not just compliance. A few years later, the same call led me to found IndigoWomen, because I kept meeting brilliant Black women leaders who were thriving on paper and running on empty everywhere else.

That question is the thread through everything I've built since: Lead for Liberation. Indigo Unbound. My book, Becoming an Indigo Woman. And The Grounded CEO. I hold a master's in the Art of Teaching from Johns Hopkins University and a master's in Educational Administration and Supervision from National-Louis University, and nearly twenty years developing leaders across education and nonprofit sectors have taught me the same thing my own life has: healing and leadership were never meant to be separate.