 Due to her advanced academic and creative arts skills, Webber qualified for summer program at Lakeside School.After participating in the summer program for two years, Webber received a full scholarship to attend the school full-time.Webber came out as a lesbian at 16 years old; as a teenager she organized a social group for lesbians of color which made her mother—who had come out as lesbian at the same age—very angry because she did not want her daughter to have a hard life.