Anderson has worked as an educational consultant, literacy coach, poet, author, and curriculum developer for more than a decade. Her study focuses on multiculturalism, literacy, coding, intellectual capital, and diasporic identity. She co-instructed a poetry course at Arizona State University with Elisa New, a renowned Harvard professor, in the fall of 2023. They covered Reconstruction Era, the Jim Crow Era, and Manifest Destiny through the prism of poetry and prose. In the summer of 2022, she published her second book, “Post Pandemic Classrooms: 10 Core Principles Every Teacher Needs to Adapt.” She received awards and recognition from Arizona State University and the National Equity Lab for her exceptional leadership in education.
In 2017, she founded the black studies course “Literature as a Witness” at Explore Schools and served as its primary lecturer. Throughout the course, students focused on three main areas of study: social complexities and sexism (social thoughts, social institutions, gender, and sexuality); historical investigation (African diaspora, African American, and global regions); and cultural significance and expressions (literary, performing arts, religion, and spiritual practices). Her poem “Unspoken Conversations” won the national Spring Robinson poetic award in 2018.
Aside from training administrators and teachers about the necessity of relevant and purposeful pedagogy, she offers schools ways for using positive narrative, restorative justice, and social-emotional learning to create trust. She also offers classroom management coaching and creative frameworks for teaching history, ELA, and small groups. She frequently gives guest lectures in the gender studies and English departments at John Jay College. She has conducted workshops at charter schools: Ascend, Explore, Urban Dove, and Kingsborough College. Prominent media outlets such as Thrive Global have quoted her work.