Taken to Panama as an infant, she returned in 1904 to Jamaica, and attended the Westwood High School for Girls in Trelawny, where she met Marcus Garvey, with whom she founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914.
Raised in Panama as a child, she returned to Jamaica in 1904 and attended the Westwood High School for Girls in Trelawny, where she met Marcus Garvey, who eventually partnered with her to create the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914.