The Found Daughter: Pulling Together the Pieces of my Mosaic. I am currently seeking literary agent representation for this memoir. It is a “coming of age” tale which documents my journey in pulling together my broken pieces after losing my status as a daughter when I entered foster care at 13-years old. When it happened, my identity splintered into countless scattered pieces. Past abuse and chronic poverty had already suppressed every aspect of my identity. Becoming a ward of the state further smothered my voice into unseen corners of myself. I was subsequently placed in five different homes between 13 and 18-years old. It then felt as if my broken pieces were physically thrust across the entire city of Chicago, which forms the wondrous backdrop of this story. This memoir does not end in the self-destructive spaces that were lurking around every corner. It instead pays graceful respect to the intricate mosaic of people and resources that made me feel like a daughter once again. 

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Markets for Black Pain: Law and Marginalization as a Commodity. This book is currently under contract with Cambridge University Press. It scrutinizes the corporate and securities laws that regulate the internal governance and external disclosures of enterprises that commodify Black Pain. Defining Black Pain is the first novel endeavor of this project.  It proceeds with an in-depth historical analysis filtered through a racial capitalism framework to reveal just how deeply embedded cycles of racism and its resulting commodification are within the development and growth of our economy since its inception. The historical analysis naturally leads to a succinct taxonomy of modern commodifiers of Black Pain which includes a wide variety of private enterprises. This book concludes with preliminary thoughts on driving principals and goals that should be included within any set of recommendations.