BGSA volunteering with George Washington Carver High School during Black History Month 2019

Service related honors

• Voted an ASU Women's Coalition Badass Woman of ASU 2021
• ​ASU’s December GPSA Social Justice Spotlight
• GPSA Outstanding Mentor Award

Service related activities

16% of biological anthropologists identify as a member of an underrepresented or marginalized group and only 1.6% of BA graduate students identify as Black (Antón, Malhi, Fuentes 2018). This shocking figure- and its relationship to "race" in anthropology- is what motivates me in my service work in anthropology. 

My current and past work include:​

• Member of the Diversity and Inclusion Planning Committee, School of Human Evolution and Social 
• I am a founding organizer with the networking movement, Black In BioAnth, Fall 2020.
• Consultant for Anthro Illustrated.
• I am on the planning committee for the Critical Mixed Race Studies conference at ASU in Feb. 2022.
• I was an invited Round-table Panelist for Black Feminist Science at the AAA Annual Meeting 2018.
• For two years I served as an AAPA Ethics Committee fellow.   
• I participate with various ASU cultural groups including the Black Graduate Students Association (BGSA) and Students Identifying Multiracial/Biracial at ASU (SIMBA). 

Invited Presentations

1. What is Anthropology’s Professional Responsibility to Anti-Oppression Action and Inclusion within the Field? Invited Roundtable Presenter at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. 2021. 
2. Using bioarchaeology to contextualize Roman imperialism in the Iron Age Adriatic (Invited Lecture). Explorations in Archaeology. University of Kansas. April 14, 2021.
3. Guest on The Human Biology Association Sausage of Science podcast Episode 95, 2020. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/human-biology-association-2/sausage-of-science
4. Black Feminist Science. Invited Roundtable Presenter at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA. 2018.