White is known for her role as Denise Williams on the short-lived television series Breaker High and as Lynn Searcy on the UPN/CW sitcom Girlfriends.

After high school, White signed with the Ford Agency and obtained her Screen Actors Guild card.

[5] White has appeared in various independent films, including Red Letters (opposite Peter Coyote) and the cult horror Blood Dolls.

[6] In July 2011, White won the award for Best Performance by an Actor in the American Black Film Festival for her work in Dysfunctional Friends.

In 2019, she reunited with her Girlfriends co-stars Tracee Ellis Ross, Jill Marie Jones, and Golden Brooks in an episode of the ABC comedy series Black-ish.

[citation needed] On February 29, 2008, White became engaged to singer Saul Williams, her boyfriend of five years, and married in 2008.