Edmonds was born in Birmingham, Alabama and was raised in Lexington, Kentucky.
[1] Edmonds was a fellow of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Project NeXt Fellowship until 2019.
[4] While working at Ohio State University, Edmonds was a first-round awardee of the Seed Fund for Racial Justice in 2020.
[5] The Fund seeks to develop research approaches that contribute to the elimination of racism on a local and national scale.
[6] In 2021, Edmonds and John Johnson codeveloped a course titled Intersections of Math and Society: Hidden Figure.