As a communication scholar, I specialize in examining communication across cultures, ethnicity, diversity, equity, inclusion, rurality and Africanity.   

I spend substantial time living in spaces where I study the lives and various cultures of Africoid people throughout the African continent, Europe, Central America, North America, and the Caribbean.

Currently, I am studying African-descended farmers living in rural spaces in the United States Lowcountry South (South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida) and West Africa (Senegal, Gambia, Nigeria, and Cameroon). 

My theory on how African people may communicate facets of their identity, Rhetorical Rurality Expressed (RRE), offers researchers new insights into what it can mean to be at once rural and of African heritage. I call it the merging of "rurality and Africanity." I have traveled to the African continent on ten different occasions and given lectures at Imo State University (Nigeria), University of Oran 2 (Algeria), and University of Makeni (Sierra Leone). 

I have also been included as part of two separate Fulbright program in Africa.