Francis is a newly minted PhD in the Linguistics Department of the University of Manitoba, Canada. Her Jamaican heritage sensitizes her to the linguistic concerns of her homeland. This, along with her passion for education, led her to design and test a training program for teaching the formal writing system of Jamiekan, a traditionally oral language. Her graduate research, in general though, examines discourse structures. First, she studies the rhetoric of politicizing linguistic choices in Jamaican electoral campaigns, focusing on linguistic ideologies and semiotic ordering. However, her dissertation takes her into the judiciary system, where she analyses identity construction discourse mechanisms among the linguistically marginalized. This research overlaps several varied sub-disciplines and other fields, including gestural studies, cognition, anthropology, city planning and philosophy. Its eclectic distinction sparks myriad other diverse research aspirations. She was awarded Graduate Fellow for Humanities, the University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship, and was listed among the 2023 Emerging Leaders.