I clicked through Instagram stories to land on Northeastern's graduation content. About seven mentions of '2025' in, it dawned on me.

I nonchalantly applied to Northeastern University. By the time I was crawling toward graduation in 2015, I looked around at the freshman and knew without a shadow of a doubt that if I had applied at the same time as them, I would have never received an acceptance letter. Here's what reinvention looks like up close.

Do you first consider yourself Black or a woman? This was birthed from that question.

Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to be a doctor. Turns out, she simply wanted the world to be written with her hand, pronounced with her voice, expressed with her tone.