Her work lives at the intersection of sport, culture, identity, access, and ambition. Across more than a decade in endurance and strength sports, Latoya has used storytelling to challenge the narrow ideas people carry about athleticism, body size, race, chronic illness, queerness, and who gets to be seen as powerful.

Running Fat Chef® began as a place for Latoya to document her experiences as a Black, fat, queer, chronically ill athlete moving through spaces that were not always built with her in mind. Over time, it became something larger: a platform for honest conversations about movement, food, bodies, representation, and the complicated work of taking up space without constantly translating yourself for other people.

Latoya’s writing and commentary have appeared in Runner’s World, HuffPost, The Root, The Cut, Elle, Good Morning America, 3rd Hour Today, and other national platforms. She has been recognized by The Root 100 and Sports Illustrated and Empower Onyx’s Elle-evate: 100 Influential Black Women in Sports.

Today, Latoya works with brands, publications, event producers, athletic organizations, and mission-driven teams through campaigns, essays, speaking engagements, moderated conversations, and strategic collaborations. Whether she is on a marathon course, a powerlifting platform, a stage, or the page, her work asks a bigger question: who gets to be recognized, respected, and taken seriously before they are convenient to celebrate?

Latoya is not interested in being reduced to an inspirational headline. She is interested in telling fuller stories, building better rooms, and creating work that makes people feel seen without flattening everything they have survived, built, and become.