I am a Public Anthropologist and Digital Nomad. My work is rooted in a black feminist critical framework. I am a storyteller, award-winning published poet, and womanist. I earned my PhD in Cultural Anthropology in 2022. I am an Alumni of the Bill Anderson Fund, BAF Fellowship.  My PhD research focused on disasters and the impacts on marginalized communities. I am a member of the Risk and Disaster Special Interest group within the Society for Applied Anthropologists, SFAA.My dissertation entitled “Changemakers in Emergency Management, EM” focused on Emergency Managers from underrepresent groups fostering change in the field of disasters. 

I obtained my B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fl. My senior thesis was about Zora Neale Hurston and the town of Eatonville, Florida, one of the first black incorporated townships in the United States.

I have a 20-year career in finance and grant administration for higher education and worked full time to put myself through grad school.  I enjoyed a four-month sabbatical traveling the world before launching MUMA P.A.W.S.  

My postdoctoral research focuses on mental wellness in marginalized communities. A proud first generation Jamaican American, I am the daughter of Pamela Angela Williams Smith and Lloyd Augustus Smith and Granddaughter of Daisy Maud Wiliams.  My applied anthropological work is rooted in the Jamaican cultural value system that communities take care of each other, and we don't have to be kin to be in community with one another. 

I center my joy, rest, and pleasure with a commitment to yoga, meditation, holistic medicine, gardening, healing through hiking, body art, cooking, baking, poetry, knitting, and music.