Masters - Social Work - Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Bachelor of Social Work - Summa Cum Laude, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.
Manager of the National Drug Council of Trinidad and Tobago, the Unit within the Ministry of National Security with responsibility for discharging Trinidad and Tobago’s overarching strategic drug policy. Between 2002 and 2007 - lectured in the Department of Behavioural Sciences at the University of the West Indies St. Augustine Campus at both the Bachelors and Masters levels, and has also been a guest lecturer on the issue of drugs in other faculties. She was one of the academic staff charged with developing the course content for modules to be delivered in the Caribbean Distance Education Programme offered by the Organization of American States at the Certificate level in addiction studies.