Beverly is the field secretary for Earthcare, Southeastern Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and co-clerks the Quaker Earthcare Witness United Nations Working Group. She has taught several courses at the University of South Florida where she also worked as a faculty member in a research center. Her related experience includes conducting research and providing technical assistance to communities and local state and federal agencies on environmental and social justice, housing, and transportation issues. Among her publications and papers is "Making Black Communities Matter: Race, Space, and Resistance in the Urban South" (with Cheryl Rodriguez). She has served on several National Academies of Science Transportation Research Board committees and is a member Equity in Transportation committee.

Beverly is an experiential workshop facilitator trained in conflict transformation, mediation, strategies on healing for trauma, and personal growth. She is an Alternatives to Violence Project facilitator and helps to provide community and prison workshops. Beverly is a member of Living Mirror Playback Theatre troupe and the Bohn Jeverly troupe, a collaborator with the Climate Change Theatre Action network. She holds degrees from Vassar College, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the University of South Florida. Beverly lives on lands once inhabited by the Timucua (Ocklawaha River Watershed) and the Tocobaga (Hillsborough Bay Watershed).