Raised by a single mother, she says it made her reassess her own quick judgement of absentee parents, like her father. “Over time, you know, listening to these mothers, it started to feel like there are so many circumstances, so many layers to being a parent, and a black parent, so many layers to being young and not knowing what decisions you’re making…it forced me to just sit and listen. And oftentimes, we don’t do that, we don’t sit and listen to parents that aren’t parenting – we just don’t give them the space, you know?”