She gained journalism experience in her native Jamaica, as a TV news reader and writer for a magazine owned by her father, who founded Jamaica's Press Association.
Too many times you buy a sandwich that you later realise had been spat in, or you're walking down the street and are spat at yourself, or, best-case scenario, are told "[N-word] go home". But when I roamed the streets as a reporter with a camera, no-one cared that I was black. They just cared about being on TV, that's one reason why I loved the job.