Attayah grew up in rural New Jersey and is a proud daughter of Caribbean immigrants. She believes that because our proximity or distance to injustice affects what we seek to either dismantle or preserve, storytelling is critical to building empathy and humanizing concepts that may seem more abstract. Over the past three years Attayah has worked with the Breakthrough Collaborative network in Brooklyn and Providence as a teaching fellow for underserved students. After feeling voiceless during much of her educational career before Brown, Attayah began to use storytelling activities in her classrooms as a way to invite students to connect their education to their lived experiences. Seeing how emboldened her students were led Attayah to co-create a YouTube series, "Minorities in a White Space" which examines the experiences of people of color who grew up in predominantly white communities. At Brown Attayah was a Minority Peer Counselor and is currently co-coordinating a college access program for young women of color in Providence. She is honored to have the opportunity to learn from the narratives of others and is excited to continue to craft stories that heal, affirm, and inspire community reflection. She is concentrating in Education History and Policy and is an active dancer.