Throughout her college career, Peterson was active on campus, becoming head of Georgetown's Black Student Union her freshman year.
After modeling for three years, Peterson moved to New York and started to delve into the, at the time, underground slam poetry scene.
Originally supposed to be a three-week job, Peterson found herself staying there for three years due to the high demand for her classes from students and teachers.
[8] Peterson also opened for Angela Davis at the 2016 Columbia University Behind the Bars conference on Mass Incarceration.
[5] Two of her most well known spoken word poems are “Ice Cream Fiend”[10] and “Waitress”[11] which both were aired on the HBO show, Def Poetry Jam.
[12] Peterson's first book, All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island, was published on April 18, 2017.
This book covers a year in Peterson's classroom at Riker's Academy in which she taught a GED class.