A Creative Polymath: One Person. Many Worlds. All Connected.

I love pretty things. It is probably why I spent over two decades shaping how brands look, feel, and communicate — from food websites to global foundations, nonprofits fighting for land rights to digital healthcare startups. Somewhere in all of that, it shaped how I see people. My first passion though was always writing. I am just a storyteller at heart. Sometimes long winded. But always deliberate.

Everything I make begins with one question: Can this make someone’s life better?

Designing for People

The Professional Foundation

Healthcare and mission-driven organizations have been the throughline of my career. Not by accident. I was volunteering in my community from a young age and that spirit of service has stayed with me. As I grew and my life changed, I found ways to keep that spirit of service alive.

I took on jobs and projects where the design, the message, and the strategy actually matter to someone’s life. At 98point6 I helped a digital healthcare company communicate a simple but powerful idea: that quality primary care and mental health support should be accessible to anyone, anywhere, through technology. At Cadasta I told stories of communities in the developing world fighting for the right to own the land beneath their feet. For the Wikimedia Foundation and The World Bank I built communications that reached people across languages, cultures, and contexts.

What I learned across all of it is that the most important design problem is never the visual one. It is always the human one. Who is receiving this message? What do they need to feel? What do they need to do next? Those questions have driven every project I have ever taken on.

The Lived Experience

I have been a caregiver. For years I managed the care of my father through a long and complex illness, navigating doctors, hospitals, and a healthcare system that doesn’t always make it easy to get the help you need. I learned what it feels like to fight for someone you love inside a system that wasn’t designed to prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable.

Then I became the patient. In 2023 I was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a chronic autoimmune disease that would eventually take me from CrossFit athlete to needing a cane in under a year. I learned what it feels like to be dismissed, to be told you are stable when you know you are not, to have to fight for your own care with whatever energy you have left.

That is why I founded Beyond the Flare, a publication about chronic illness, self-advocacy, and the fight for proper treatment. And it is why everything I build now carries a question: whose life does this actually touch?

The Full Picture

But it doesn’t end there.

Alongside the design work and the advocacy writing, I have other projects in the works. The Griot’s Table is a Black history book series launching on Juneteenth: 365 daily stories designed to bring African and African American history to life for families in ten minutes a day. I am writing a science fiction novel series rooted in Dahomey warrior ancestry and the experience of chronic illness. I write horror. I write for children. I am endlessly curious about mythology, anthropology, history, and the stories that shape how we understand ourselves.

This site is not a portfolio. It is not a personal brand in the traditional sense. It is a window into a person who creates across many worlds simultaneously and believes that the most interesting work happens at the intersections, between advocacy and art, between history and science fiction, between personal experience and universal truth.