Dr. West's scholarship, experience, and continued research interests focus on campus climate, narrative and storytelling as a method, restoration and healing, sister circles, and how People of Color and individuals from historically marginalized identities work towards liberation while in higher education through the lens of Black Feminist Theory and Critical Race Theory and through the process of disrupting systemic oppression. Dr. West identifies as a scholar activist and is a formally trained social justice and anti-racist educator and facilitator. Dr. West works with organizations to develop and facilitate educational opportunities that engage individuals in meaningful, critical, and urgent work about identity, systems of power, privilege, and oppression, and our individual and collective roles in taking action to disrupt inequitable structures. Dr. West prioritizes truth telling, amplifying voices and experiences often excluded, and leading from an intersectional framework.