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But there were those in the speculative fiction community who still didn't want her, or anyone like her—a black woman born in Iowa City and raised between Mobile, Alabama and Brooklyn, New York with a day job as a counseling psychologist— to have a seat at the same table as them.
She studied psychology at Tulane in New Orleans, and went to grad school to study counseling at the University of Maryland-College Park.