Educationally trained as an art historian at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, I attended the University of Pittsburgh as an undergraduate dual major studying art history and marketing/public relations. Upon graduating I moved to Washington, DC to attend graduate school at Howard University while there I focused on Caribbean art history and visual culture – my MA thesis “A Third Root Aesthetic: Examining the Art of Michael Auld” surveyed sculptures and installations created by a Jamaican artist from the 1960s through the 1990s. And in 2011 I graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago which provided the opportunity for me to focus on more global and theorized perspectives.