Her mentors in the world of art include Talle Bamazi, Stephanie Rond, Queen Brooks, and Bettye Stull.

[9] She received a Jurors Choice award as a participant in the Greater Columbus Arts Council and Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District CAP-UP Artist Grant in 2012.

His father, Soichi Sunami, was a noted Pictorialist photographer best known for his extended artistic collaboration with modern dance icon Martha Graham.

Sunami is best known for having popularized what she calls "psycheñwelic" art (from the Greek root psyche, meaning mind or soul, as combined with the Swahili word nywele meaning hair), a locally-influential art movement centered in Columbus, Ohio.

[17][18][19] Sunami has contributed to collaborative works by Creative Arts of Women and Mother Artists at Work, and did individual collaborations with visual artists Stephanie Rond, Queen Brooks and Lisa McLymont; and poets Naki Akrobettoe, Caroline Bennett, Dionne Custer Edwards, Barbara Fant and Katerina Harris, among others.