McKinnie is a curator and cultural strategist practicing on the unceded land of the Nisenan (Sacramento, CA). Her practice is rooted in the prioritization and care of artists who find their work outside of the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchal margins of the art historical canon. She has held leadership positions at Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento Theatre Company, and Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum. She has consulted on projects with The Center at Sierra Health Foundation, California's Governor Gavin Newsom, and Sacramento's Office of Arts & Culture. She received the Sacramento Bee & Nehemiah Emerging Leadership Program's 2022 Top 25 Black Change Maker award, the Sacramento Kings & Crown Royal's 2022 Culture Creator Award, the National Endowment for the Arts & City of Sacramento's 2022 Seeding Creativity Award, and an 18th Street Arts Center's California Creative Corps Finalist. She founded the Sacramento Curatorial Collective, served as DEIA board chair at Capital Creative Alliance, and was a founding board member of the Sacramento Alliance for Regional Art. She is a lecturer on Curatorial Activism. She holds a B.A. in Art History and is a candidate for a Masters in Public Administration from the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University.