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I'm a Black Southern girl!!
I'm a Black Southern girl!!
I am a Southern, Black girl. Born in Tuscaloosa, AL. I managed to live in different places, but somehow I always land back home. I've always "liked school", which made me different from an early age. Consequently, my journey gave me a myriad of opportunities.
After high school and college, I was led (and still am) on a spiritual journey that gave me thrilling and difficult experiences that have shaped who I am.
I joined a great church (Impact Nation), went to an HBCU, and two PWIs, Stillman College, Samford University, and the University of Alabama, respectively. I met lifelong friends, sorors, colleagues, spiritual leaders/pastors, spiritual mentors, and framily.
I met people from all walks of life, helping me to be free to love all humankind. I got a PhD, which seems so impossible, and I continue to do the intellectual work. Life took me on an interesting path, but there is purpose in everything. All these experiences shaped me.
Who am I? A Black, Southern girl, a follower of Jesus, a scientist, an academic and researcher, a friend, a soror, a sister, a mentor, an educator, and a community advocate.
Top Photo: My line sisters at a photo shoot commemorating our 30th Anniversary of Delta membership; Middle photo: my first in-person meeting with the Black Warrior Riverkeeper staff; Bottom photo: Political friends at an Emerge event.
Left photo: Letter writing party with political friends (RIP Cathy); Right photo: Get together in Birmingham with my friends from graduate school (UA)
Left photo: Graduate school friends at the celebration of the first Black students to integrate UA; Right photo: Friends at the AKA Black Dress and Bowtie Party
Left photo: Stillman (EH) sorors visiting in Atlanta; Right photo: The "Three Musketeers" at my graduation at UA
Left photo: Family reunion in Atlanta with my cousins; Right photo: Graduation of women in the Women's Policy Institute Fall 2021 Cohort
Left photo: Mama's birthday party with friends; Right photo: Natural Hair event in Birmingham with fellow naturalistas.
1st photo: Me with an afro; 2nd photo: At a Climate Justice rally with my sister in the movement and fellow organizer; 3rd photo: WPI Fellows at a fundraiser
Left photo: Christmas party with political friends; Right photo: Vision Board party with friends from UA
1st Photo: Friends and Stillman alumnae at Homecoming; 2nd Photo: Women's Church Fellowship (Impact Nation-Forever 31); 3rd Photo: Sisters!; 4th Photo: Friends and church sister at a Ball (Bryant Conference Center)
Left Photo: Stillman graduation, May 3rd, 1997, UA graduation May 3rd, 2013; Right Photo: Friends and Colleagues at the People's Action National Convention
Photos of my sisters! I'm glad they are in my life!
Left photo: Citizens' Climate Lobby campadres; Right photo: Sorors at the Delta Days at the Alabama State Capitol
1st Photo: Mom and I celebrating her birthday!!; 2nd photo: Me and my homette at a concert; 3rd photo: Me and a colleague in Jasper for a Juneteenth event
Left photo: Cahaba River Society friends at our Annual meeting (we are now Cahaba River Coalition; Right photo: Soror and I at a D9 Voter Engagement event
1st photo: Birthday girls and church sisters at a party celebration; 2nd photo: My high school classmate and I; 3rd photo: Our interim ED for CRS/CRC at the Cahaba Frydown
1st photo: Sorors at an SCLC rally with a voter registration table; 2nd photo: Catherine Flowers and I at Dillard University; 3rd photo: Fellow board members at one of our annual events
Left photo: Colleagues in Suriname, South America, for lunch; Right photo: My supervisor and family having dinner in Suriname at a famous Chinese restaurant there
Left photo: Church sisters at the EJI Museum in Montgomery; Right photo: Good friends in the environmental movement making good trouble
Left photo: My sister and I in New York City watching the Broadway play, The Lion King; Right photo: Lady and I at the Impact Nation Black party (this is such a lovely photo)
1st photo: My high school classmates at the Homecoming of one of our classmates; 2nd photo: Delta sorors of Tuscaloosa Alumnae doing public service; 3rd photo: CRC Board Members at the celebration of our merger.
Sorors in Pickens County during a political forum. I was the facilitator.
My family: 1st photo: Bonner Family at my father's induction in Stillman's Sport Hall of Fame: 2nd photo: L:Me, M: my father, R: my brother; 3rd Photo: Family at Stillman for another reward for Dad.
Left photo: Advertisement for CCL, there I am!; Second photo: Dr. Pitt's research group in 2009 in Kansas City for an EWRI Conference
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