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Antoinette is a doctoral candidate in Education Policy and Leadership at the º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù. She earned her B.S. in psychology and criminal justice from Virginia Commonwealth University, and her M.S. in family, youth, and community sciences from the University of Florida. She is a proud first gen scholar whose research focuses on racial and gender equity, higher º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù policy, and redressing inequities in º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëùal opportunity and success. Her dissertation specifically examines how Black girls and women's identity and º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëùal experiences influence their college and career trajectories. Her work aims to emphasize the importance of structural, historical, and cultural contexts as well as the interactions among these contexts in º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù research and policy.

Antoinette has previously served as a graduate student senator, on the executive committee of the UMD senate, and as vice president of the college of º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù’s graduate student organization. She also served two terms as the secretary/historian of the American Educational Research Association’s Graduate Student Council (AERA GSC). Currently, she is an inaugural Thurgood Marshall Research Fellow at The Institute for Public Leadership at the º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù's School of Public Policy.