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Introspection is a workbook-notebook hybrid that includes creative reflection prompts, coloring pages, affirmation quotes, and fillable calendar sheets to support planning and inner work. This journal has everything!
The 52 QUEENS Affirmation Deck features 52 unique ink-drawn sketches of women. Each card showcases a different message, designed to inspire daily mantras. The colorful background adds a vibrant touch. Perfect for motivation, healing, and focus.
Specifications:
Card Number: 52 cards
Size: 3.5 x 5.5 inches
Material: High-quality, thick (14 pt.) coated semigloss cardstock
Package: Purple organza bag
Versatile Use
Each card offers a unique message to complement your self-care practice. Use the affirmation deck for quick encouragement when needed. Ideal for those seeking inspiration and motivation in their daily lives. Perfect for daily use or as a quick word of encouragement.
Enhance Your Routine
Enhance your self-care routine with these inspiring messages. A versatile tool for motivation, healing, and focus.
Add a splash of pastel color, fantasy, and whimsy to your space with a Cotton Candy Series Black Girl Art Print.
Prints are available in the following options:
4×6 - no mat
4×6 - w/ mat (Black matting to fit into a 5×7 frame)
5×7 - no mat
5×7 - w/ mat (Black matting to fit into an 8×10 frame)
8×10 - no mat
Art, reflection & creativity for purposeful living and leading
I support Black women, educators & creatives through artful, introspective tools, workshops, and consulting that sparks purpose, joy, and expression.
Learn about my current work.
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Take a look inside Introspection, a creative workbook-journal designed to inspire reflection, spark mindfulness, and help you plan with purpose.
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Whether you’re an organization or an innovator with a transformative idea, my design skills can bring your publication vision to life.
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Through watercolor and digital illustration, I create artwork, logos, and graphics often featuring the beauty and brilliance of Black women.
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Using 15 years of teaching at the collegiate level and Black feminist pedagogy, I facilitate engaging, aesthetically captivating, and interactive workshops, keynotes, and trainings centering identity, mentoring, equity, creative inquiry, and higher education.
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Join me for opportunities to be in community with creatives, educators, and dreamers of all sorts seeking tools and spaces to align their identities, passions, creativity, and dreams.
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I currently serve as an Associate Professor of Higher Education and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Ball State University. You can learn more about my publications, research, teaching, and service by downloading my CV & resumé.
Upcoming Workshops
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Engaging Creative Expression to Transform Your Research
Thu • July 10 • 12-1 PM (EST)
Explore ways to get more creative in your research process (from data collection and analysis to reporting and sharing findings) engaging written, visual, audio, and performance art in your work.
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Worldmaking in the Academy: Nurturing the Spaces We Need
Tue • July 29 • 12-1 PM (EST)
Don't miss the opportunity share collective space with fellow dreamers, agitators, and changemakers through this workshop on the Black feminist act of worldmaking in the academy.
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Using Introspection to Craft the Faculty Life of Your Dreams
Thu • August 21 • 12-1 PM (EST)
Through shared resources for reflexivity, prompted visioning, and discussion with fellow academic journeyers, you will leave this workshop feeling inspired, connected, and ready to continue on your path as faculty.