Dr. Lackey, affectionately known as Nurse Lackey, centers her research interests around the drivers and barriers to achieving health equity. As a nurse scientist, she aims to utilize design thinking and human-centered innovation as processes capable of shifting our shared reality in a positive direction. Her primary research interests focus on examining the influence of culture on the experience of trauma, stress, and coping through storytelling methods such as auto-ethnography. Through the power of community building and team science, she intends to develop multilevel interventions that promote holistic well-being, especially throughout the African Diaspora.