[2] She earned an associate's degree in applied sciences with an emphasis on drug and alcohol abuse counseling from Texarkana Community College in 2008.
[2][1] She earned a master's degree in interdisciplinary studies in psychology with concentrations in criminal justice and counseling from Texas A&M in 2012.
[2][1] After finishing business school, Ford began working as an office administrator for the United States federal government in 1998.
[2] On September 1, 2022, Ford became the first African-American to join the Arkansas Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
[1] She descends from the son of an enslaved black woman and a white landowner who had furnished supplies in North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War.