She began her education studying biology and it wasn't until her sophomore year of college that she discovered design and marketing was where she wanted to move her focus.
This work has earned her many recognitions and awards including being named the Founding Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force of AIGA.
Along with this work she is also an international speaker and facilitator, previously speaking at Google, TED, Capital One, Harvard, Stanford University, Microsoft, NASA.
Inspired by her own experiences as a black woman and more acutely after the Ferguson uprisings in 2014 she started her nonprofit, The Creative Reaction Lab.
This program aims to educate and train formerly incarcerated and justice system-impacted Black and Latinx youth to become civic leaders in their communities.