Ms. Kilpatrick was born and raised in Memphis, TN. She attended Memphis City Schools and graduated in 1998 from Whitehaven High School. In the Fall of 1998, she attended Rhodes College where she received her Bachelors of Arts (BA) in English in 2002, She immediately began working on her Masters at the University of Memphis in the summer of 2002, and she began her first teaching position in October 2002 at Melrose High School. Ms. Kilpatrick completed her Masters in the Arts of Teaching (MAT) in the spring of 2005. After six years at Melrose High School, she transferred to her Alma Mater, Whitehaven High School, where she taught for four years. She then transferred to East High School in 2011, where she taught for four years. Additionally in 2011, Ms. Kilpatrick began working to take graduate courses in English Composition Studies and African American Literature at the University of Memphis, to date she has obtained over 45 graduate hours in Composition Studies and African American Literature. In the fall of 2015, Ms. Kilpatrick began to adjunct at Southwest Community College. In the fall of 2016, Ms. Kilpatrick joined the Cordova High School wolf pack.