[3] She initially matriculated at University of Maryland Eastern Shore and later transferred to the HBCU Bennett College, where she received her bachelor's degree in 2012.
[3] She later received her master’s degree in media management and women, gender, and sexuality studies from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
[17] Dionne published her first book, Fat Girls Deserve Fairy Tales Too: Living Hopefully On the Other Side of Skinny, in 2019 under Seal Press.
[2] Dionne was inspired to write the book in 2016 when she noticed women visiting to the graves of various white female suffragettes like Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the lead-up to the presidential election.
"[19] Kirkus Reviews referred to the book as "a lively and critical addition as the United States commemorates the centennial of women’s suffrage.