Who am I?

Who am I? 

I am one who leads with fearless love.

Everybody has a word or phrase they say more than any other. My word is love.

I am a Southern girl raised in Brooklyn, NY

I am a community psychologist and a teacher at the core.

I am the baby of my sibling family, the mother of 4, and the grandmother of 3.

I am the 27-year life partner of a special human who loved my Black Power stance from the moment we met.

I love to offer mentorship and a listening ear to anyone who asks.

I do nothing more than you could ever imagine.

I’m hooked on wordle, Quordle, Octordle (both the original and sequence) DAILY. And I still do old-school word puzzles in books. Anagram magic squares are my favorite!

I have a passion for media literacy - critical consumption of all content is necessary! Check out this article that summarizes my learnings from my dissertation - Parental Mediation of Television Viewing and its Influence on Ethnic Identity Development. And in 2002, when I graduated with my Ph.D., dissertations were not made available online.

I love to write and am making that move to write much much more. I’m writing a book currently about the birth of Listening 4 Justice (L4J) which includes a guidebook for reflections related to the L4J journey.

I have a children’s TV show I once pitched to Nickelodeon (in 2005!) and they loved it. After 6 months of waiting and having signed an NDA (non-disclosure), they decided ‘not now'. But hey, I have decided that NOW is the time. More to come…

I also began writing a dramatic series in 2005 called More Love. It’s the story of Olabisi Ford-Harrison, a 30-something woman of African descent living in Atlanta with a blended family and a husband. She works for a foundation and finds herself surprisingly more aligned with the white matriarch of the wealthy family than she does with the 30-something liberal daughter who runs the day-to-day.  She strives to be a senator one day and we watch her navigate work, family, marriage, her political aspirations and her crushes. Hence the title - More Love.

I LOVE family dinners. And my kids (even the vegans) mostly ask me to make mac ‘n cheese. Thanks, mom for the recipe of a lifetime! Sometimes they ask for my BBQ tofu (recipe featured in NY Times)  but they like my tofu sticks, tofu pot pie and vegan French toast even better.

For now, I will share short and long pieces of writing on this website:

  • #onfacilitation
  • #onfamily
  • #onthefuture
  • #criticalconsumption

I realized several years ago that I could only share a part of myself on the HTI website. So many years later, here we are. I am launching this site as a place to share all parts of me.

I hope you are informed, inspired, instructed and will share your examples of fearless love.