Dr Batson is currently Chair of the Department of Visual & Performing Arts and Professor of Music at Florida Memorial University. She has a Ph.D. in International Affairs and Music, a Masters of Music Industry from the University of Miami and a Bachelor of Science in Music Education, specializing in strings from Hofstra University in Long Island, New York. She initiated the Steelband classes at the University of Miami, New World School of the Arts and the Steelband Program at Florida Memorial University and is a cultural consultant for various law firms, private and public bodies. Dr. Batson was the first Chairman of the Board of the Trinidad and Tobago National Steel Orchestra. She has judged for international steelband competitions such as the New York Labor Day Panorama, the European leg of the 2002 World Steelband Festival held in Sete, France, the Cayman Islands Youth Steelband Festivals, Pan Alive 2010 in Toronto, Canada, and the Cayman Islands 2010 Pirate's Week Steelband Competition. Dr. Batson has also given lectures and coordinated teacher workshops on the steelpan and Caribbean culture in places such as Trinidad and Tobago, Great Britain, Europe, Canada, North Africa and the United States.