2013 National Black Nurses Association, Created quarterly genetics newsletter resource column entitled, What's the Helix?

2011 International Society for Nurses in Genetics, Continuing Education Committee 24th Annual Conference Co-Chairperson

2011-2012 International Society for Nurses in Genetics, Global Membership Committee, Co-Chairperson

2010-2005-2010 National Black Nurses Association, Special Interest Group in Genetics Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Alpha Theta Chapter, Co-chair health care advisory board

2005 American Nurses Credentialing Center, Pediatric CNS Content Expert Panel

Professional and Society Memberships

2010-2014 Obesity Society

2009- Southern Nurses Research Society

2009- Sigma Theta Tau (Gamma Chapter)

2008- Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science

2008-2011 Midwest Nursing Research Society

2008- International Society for Nurses in Genetics

2005- National Black Nurses Association

2005-2012 Society of Pediatric Nurses

2003, 2005 Pediatric Nursing Certification Board, Inc. CPN Examination Item Writer

2002- National League for Nurses

2001- New Orleans District Nurses Association

1997- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated

1995- American Nurses Association

1995- Louisiana State Nurses Association

Editorial Activities

2017- Editorial Board, Journal Palliative Care and Nursing

2016- Editorial Board, Journal of the National Black Nurses Association, Inc.

2016- Editor-in-Chief, NBNANews, Official Newsletter of the National Black Nurses Association, Inc.

2014- Guest editor, Nursing Research and Practice special edition on Health Disparities in Genomics and Genetics

2012- Abstract Reviewer, International Society of Nurses in Genetics

2013- Abstract Reviewer, Council for the Academy of Nursing Science

2011 Journal Reviewer, Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine

2011 Journal Reviewer, Obesity Reviews

2010 Journal Reviewer, [Special Edition] Infant, Child & Adolescent Nutrition

2010-2014 Journal Reviewer, Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing

2009 Journal Reviewer, Future Medicine

2009- Abstract Reviewer, Southern Nurses Research Society

2013- Journal Reviewer, Research in Nursing and Health