Porsha holds a Master of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health from Boston University School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts in Women and Gender Studies from Wellesley College, two institutions whose commitments to gender equity and public health shaped the intellectual foundations of her work.

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Porsha has dedicated her career to alleviating health disparities for communities of color, with a specialization in maternal and child health and health equity program management. She is a certified Centering Pregnancy Facilitator, trained in the evidence-based group prenatal care model that has become a gold standard for culturally congruent maternal care. Her research was presented as a top poster at the Association for Clinical and Translational Science’s 2025 Translational Science conference, through Georgetown and Howard Universities’ Center for Clinical and Translational Science, positioning the framework within the national perinatal care conversation.

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She has been invited to speak at Harvard Law School’s Women’s Law Association panel on gender, health, and maternal inequities in America; at Boston University School of Public Health’s graduate course on women and substance use; and as a panelist on intersectionality and lived experience in healthcare at Tufts University. Earlier in her career she presented on fetal and infant mortality review implementation to the Boston Public Health Commission, work that deepened her understanding of the systemic conditions shaping Black maternal outcomes.

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Originally from Boston and now based in Washington, D.C., Porsha brings the rare combination of public health expertise and Black feminist scholarship.