Teacher & Social Justice Activist Survival Fund

Community building is all I’ve ever known.

When I was in elementary school, I was hit by a car in an All Black Community campaigning for felons to get their right to vote back.

In High school I threw myself into politics, actively campaigning for local community leaders.

In college, I attended Florida Memorial University, a HBCU where I marched South Floridian streets for Black Lives.

2016 I started a self defense organization, gathering local trainers and connecting them to community members that needed them.

2019 I fundraised lunches for 1,782 Black elementary school children with Operation MADFood

2020 I fundraised for Breonna Taylor.. for bailout campaigns

When I moved to Atlanta in 2021, I did it hoping to create a small ripple in the community. A series of blessed set backs led me to a First Year Teaching position at a local charter school. On September 16th, 2022 I was on my way to teaching my 7th grade class, it was my 4th day as their ELA teacher when I was chased down and had my Jeep riddled in bullets by random men… The same men I spent years fighting for, crying for, no less. 7 Bullets hit my Jeep, three hit me… one positioned itself right at the nape of my neck, centimeters from my skull, inches from my spinal cord. Because I didn’t have health insurance, simply because at the time, I couldn’t afford it and it hadn’t yet chipped in at work, Grady hospital sent me home same day, wounds open. One of my assaulters is still free as of writing this. I am now currently asking humbly for the community I’ve loved and fought for to help me with a heavy lift. I am fundraising to pay off my medical expenses, moving expenses, mental health expenses and for basic survival needs while I am out of work. I have fought hard for my community and i am heartbroken that wasn’t enough to deem me untouchable. But I am here nonetheless. I wish only to regain the piece of mind that was lost that morning, so that I can continue fighting in the struggle, teaching Black children to love themselves/community, but also to recover the trust I lost, and to be in safer space.