Some Professional Things
I’ve worked with brands like Scholastic, Dunkin’, Eggland’s Best, Amazon, eBay, Disney, NASDAQ, Sesame Street, Bluey, Doodles, Smuckers, and Target, to name a few. An ad I collaborated on ended up being the face of a national event and being featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver; it won our company astronomical sales. My work has contributed to both a Webby winning production and a THEA award winning experience!

Currently
Working FT remotely from Atlanta with one of the coolest creative teams ever at CAMP, NYC. And listen. If you are here for the French Onion Soup recipe, I’m afraid you’ll have to get to the bottom. Ok, you can scroll. It’s a very good recipe.

Dream Seeking
book cover design, food packaging/branding, restaurant branding, editorial illustrations, animations, skincare packaging, children’s book illustrations, graphic prop design, art licensing, branded illustrations, show branding, something something video games productions movies design!

Like many creatives, I’m a curious person; I guess that’s why we wear so many hats. Today, I’m a designer/illustrator and a food photographer with a focus on narrative driven graphics, but I’ve worn too many hats to count throughout my career. I’ve found that the two things I love most about the creative process is finding the story and solving the problem and this is part of why, y’know, All The Hats! Gathering hats means I can get a little better at both of the things I care most about.

Let’s take a beat. If you like talking about video games (Zelda, FF7, horror), animation, and shows, please @ me. Let’s forget about this ‘about me’ nonsense and talk about why they didn’t include Ganondorf’s backstory in Tears of the Kingdom. Really, why all the references and no solid ties to the OG demon king?? Whatever, I still loved it.

So ok, back to hats. Each hat makes the other hats better and I’ve worked for enough years in media, publishing, and production where it’s an understatement to say that that is helpful. And for someone who is obsessed with learning, my career is fulfilling because of it. I’ve been so humbled by the amount of ingenuity in the room and it’s kept me hungry, inspired, and varied: I’ve worked in sourcing and art directing illustrators for editorial pieces, books, and animation; I’ve worked in art direction for both food and concept-heavy editorial photo shoots; I’ve worked on small scale set building for many of these shoots; I’ve worked in product in the form of websites and apps; I’ve worked solo, managing teams, and with teams (creative collaborators holler at me! I love doing collabs);

I’ve animated, conceptualized, shot, directed, retouched, illustrated, storyboarded, project managed (I have a real knack for this!), and designed.

So what have I learned from all of this exploration? From purely the problem-solving side, it gives my brain that good itch to try different modes of storytelling in order to create something as fully immersive as possible. From the creative side, I especially love exploring themes of mental health, food, pop-culture, community focused ideals, kind humor, and magical realism. I am head over heels in love with story and creating from the soul because I have come to believe in the power that stories have to help people, and I’ve experienced it firsthand—I want to do that for others by creating, doing, collaborating. Purposeful stories expressed with intention make our world better and easier to understand, and they foster connection. Visuals, designs, words, music, all of these things matter. So uh, no big deal, don’t make a thing out of it, you’re not my mom.

Anyways, no matter the project, my career has also taught me that when you start out with play and curiosity, you can make some real impact and connection. I dare you to look up creative processes for three things you’ve connected to and tell me the creation processes are the same— they aren’t! It’s so cool. They are big balls of collaboration and mess with, sure, some identifiable through-lines, but so unique and exciting.

In my free time, you can probably find me learning something, studying creatives or productions that I admire, or working on a passion project (…or eating. And definitely cooking and baking. Hey check out this French Onion recipe, it’s gonna make you wanna leave your family to run off with a whole thing of soup. But you gotta make the bread from scratch, ok? Make it from scratch, it’s worth it.) I enjoy plants and yearn to be a witch by the sea in an apothecary. Skincare is a plush, comforting friend of mine. I also am crazy into languages; I’m into Spanish, Japanese, and of course, Hindi (my household language). I always have some several illustrations I am in the middle of or some writing challenge I am pushing myself through. Oh! Also salsa dancing/music, and pie (my favorite place in Brooklyn shut down, but if you ever ate at The Blue Stove off of Graham, you are blessed). Oh and soundtracks, I mean Nicholas Britell you have my whole ear canal.

And I’m constantly reading. Just constantly being herded along by my Libby app screaming at me that someone is waiting on that book have you finished it?! Wait, what are you reading right now, lemme add it to my queue if it’s good (I’m sorry, Libby).

Here’s the conclusion: I want to tell compelling stories and create engaging experiences. So drop me a line if that sounds like something you need or are into! I’m based out of Atlanta, but I am covid cautious so our work would be remote, which I’m excellent at. I’ve successfully worked remote and with remote teams (in Thailand! NY! Cali!) prior to COVID and for the last four years as well.