​ The Real Black Coffee's work is informed by her deep understanding of the unique challenges of marginalized BIPOC communities - and more importantly, its potential. She is intuitive, authentic, empathetic, and understanding. She has an insatiable interest in social causes involving children, criminal justice reform, poverty alleviation, veterans, community development and mobilization, economic empowerment, and is most fulfilled when helping people.

 

While working in corporate America and as the Executive Director of a nonprofit substance use prevention agency, she was failing through falling into the trap of someone knowing something but not speaking up about it, or not getting heard. 

 

She is a dominant leader that began to see herself as unquestionably right about systemic racism and injustice, when those around her felt they can only say what is safe to say. This created the perfect storm in which she became disconnected from the day-to-day rhetoric that their perspective of the world is reality. Her alternative understanding and experiences were stifled with potentially disastrous consequences. She was trying to speak truth to power only encountering different forms of power that determine what counts as truth.

 

From adversity to advocacy- This was the birth of “The Real Black Coffee, No Sugar, No Cream. ​A voice for the voiceless. She believes everyone should have a platform to share their stories and experiences.

 

The mission is to amplify the voices of communities and people that are often unheard. She provides a space for individuals to connect, share stories, and learn from one another. Join her fight for social justice and equality.