Bio

My rearing in Bedstuy, Brooklyn, cultivated my interest in the Caribbean. Childhood inquisitions on Circum-Atlantic history and annual reveling on the "parkway" for the "West Indian American" Day Parade eventually led to a doctoral degree in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. There, I discovered the intimacy between Blackness and geographic knowledge and developed a richer analysis of racial capitalism, but more importantly, a nurturing community of Black women scholars. I am a tenure track professor in African American Studies at Wesleyan University. I am also the co-coordinator of the Caribbean Studies Minor and the Africana Studies Colloquium Series at Wesleyan. 

​What are the spatial dimensions of reparative speech? Where within a Black radical tradition can we locate institutional claims for repair? In the absence of certainties often promised through formal justice processes, where else can find repair? What are the human and non-human assemblages that constitute grief and reparative practices in the Caribbean? These are some of the many questions that occupy both my research and teaching. As a geographer, I explore contemporary experiences and representations of slavery, colonialism and uneven development in the Caribbean. My doctoral work examined the symbolic and material forces of institutional reparative claims in Barbados—a small but politically large landscape. This work has inspired my current book project, Holding Mirrors: The Multiplicity of Indo and Afro-Caribbean Articulations of Repair, which explores the multiplicity of Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean visions of recovery, grief, and justice relating to the geographic realities of chattel slavery, indentureship and colonialism. This project calls for a more relational approach to Caribbean claims for reparations/repair. 

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