I’m a Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist, researcher and community strategist with a deep commitment to transforming systems and restoring dignity where it has been denied.

 

I’ve served as the Georgia Coordinator for the Multifaith Initiative to End Mass Incarceration, bringing together faith leaders, advocates and policymakers to push for justice at the intersection of spirituality and systemic change. I’m also the founder of Returning Her Home—a transitional housing and healing model designed for women exiting incarceration—that’s helped shift recidivism outcomes and reentry practices across Georgia. Through that work, I’ve supported women from all walks of life in their journeys home with compassion, structure and community support.

 

My expertise bridges multiple sectors—mental health, public health, reentry and capacity-building—and my approach is rooted in both lived experience and academic rigor. I hold a PhD in Community and Social Services, and specialize in trauma-informed frameworks that honor the complexity of healing after harm.

 

I’m also a mother. A Latina. A survivor of the systems that are meant to break us.