
Representing Brooklyn, NY, Anecia is a member of the class of 2023 proudly concentrating in African American Studies. Though she was initially drawn to psychology, the AAS Department's critical analysis of power and how it operates in history, culture, and language has expanded her lens on mental health advocacy, drawing her to interrogate the structural, social, and emotional impediments to holistic wellness. Drawing primarily on abolitionist traditions and black and queer feminist epistemologies, Anecia's academic work has engaged the importance of community as a radical terrain for personal and political transformation, and the role that the psychic, emotional, and spiritual play in our political goals. She intends to bring these interests and values into practice through clinical social work.
Anecia has carried her love of counseling and radical relationship into her work as a Residential College Advisor (RCA) for Forbes College and her facilitation work as a Fields Fellow at the Carl A. Field's Center. Beyond this, Anecia is a proud member and emeritus President of Ellipses Slam Poetry and a musical theatre lover, expanding on her passion for performance and the arts. She is also a winner of the 2020-21 Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence.