A native Jamaican, Doc is deeply rooted in the traditions of the Global South, shaped by their upbringing in the Jamaican countryside with Grandma Rose, who instilled in them the values of farming, community-building, and liberatory love. Doc’s work is grounded in a transformative ethic of care and liberation, which they bring to their organizing, consulting, teaching, parenting and living.

An innovator and institution builder, Doc has founded more than 5 organizations in metro-Atlanta, including their latest, Lakou Liberation and Liberation Cooperative, as well as the Organization for Human Rights and Democracy (OHRD) where they served as its former co-director and Winds of Change Consulting, where they were the co-principal and managing director. While at OHRD, Doc partnered with members to envision and build radical democratic institutions rooted in intersectional human rights principles and cooperative processes. Out of which they birthed and articulated Radical Queer Black feminism–a framework, theory, politic and ethic for birthing new worlds, aka The Polyverse. Portals to The Polyverse are everywhere, and you can gain access through their current project, Lakou Cooperative.