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Founded 2019 · Founder & Principal Consultant · 15+ Media Features · WIN 2025 Honoree · D.Sc. in Cybersecurity · Published Researcher

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Women Informal Network (WIN) 2025 Honoree — "One of the Most Influential African American Women in Metropolitan Detroit"

AWARDS

PUBLICATIONS

"Likes, Validation, and Peer Pressure: The Emotional Drivers of Risky Online Behavior on Social Media" published through IAFOR, Washington DC Conference on the Social Sciences 2026 (WCSS2026), Psychology & Social Psychology stream.

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"Hack Back or Step Back? Exploring an Ethical Dilemma Between Cyber Defense and Cyber Vigilantism" — co-authored with Donna Schaeffer (Marymount University) and Patrick Olson (National University). Published in Issues in Information Systems, Vol. 26, 2025. Examines the legal/ethical questions around private-sector "hack back" retaliation, using the Sony Pictures and Colonial Pipeline incidents as case studies.

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"Cybercriminal Profiling" — published in EDPACS, Vol. 60, 2019. Explores criminal profiling as it applies to cybercrime and the need for law enforcement and IT professionals to work together against it.

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speaking engagements and panels

  • We Rock Saturdays! Senior Tech Day — Powered to Dream (2025)

  • BaddieCon NYC — "The High Cost of Hustle" (2025)

  • noHack Career Services "Official Launch" — LinkedIn Live (2025)

  • BaddieCon NYC — "The Vector is You" (2024)

  • Diversitech Conference powered by Tribaja — "Data Privacy Essentials" (2024)

  • Women Like Me: A Celebration of Cyphers — EmpowHER (2023)

  • Breaking Into Tech Panel! — B.I.T. RDU Chapter (2022)

  • BIC Winter Conference — "Black Cyber Business" (2021)

  • Jerome Bettis Foundation — "The Check-Inn II" (2020)

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