Born Fe Liza Ramone Bencosme Benjamin in New York City to Caribbean immigrants from St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Cibao region of the Dominican Republic, where she grew up seamlessly literally as well as figuratively between the two cultures until returning to the U.S. mainland that she was made to be aware of the differences in skin tones among herself and extended family on both sides, and especially her parents, mostly at the behest of classmates but often time from adults as well. Today these “racialists” and critical race ideologists foist a racialized worldview on children at an even younger age--robbing them of their sense of wonder, full free lives and jeopardizing the promise of a full flourishing of society.
Travel has afforded Fe a broad perspective of the world and its variety in peoples as well as within cultures, i.e., no one culture or one person is a monolith. She has traveled around the world several times, mostly on her own initiative while at other times as a publicist for an international hotel corporation, and, following the events of 9-11 and a forced career change, as an international educator.
It was during her teacher preparation experience while pursuing a master’s degree in teaching writing and literature at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, in the early 2010s and then later as a doctoral student that she encountered and was troubled by progressive theories of in higher education (and in the Church) but like so many Americans looking in from the outside she sensed something was wrong but did not realize the approaching danger. When the longtime trouble of identifying with both parents’ ethnicities finally came to head with colleagues at the community college where she taught freshman English, Fe left teaching.
Today she makes her own way as an independent psychometrist when she is not organizing for conservative causes or encouraging others to eschew racial identities by not checking the box.
