I am an artist, animator, and storyteller originally from Kansas. I came to Chicago initially for college and received a BFA in Animation from DePaul University in 2025, with minors in Art and Illustration. During my college career, I fell in love with the city, being able to travel through it, and how involved I could be on and off campus in various communities. After graduation, I had my first artist residency with Black Alphabet; my project, inspired by the lack of representation I had seen in my classes and with what many of my peers created, surrounded interviewing Black participants, drawing self-portraits with them, and capturing images I felt related to Blackness along my commute. Through this, outside of the realm of assignments, I found where I wanted to be and what I wanted to create.

Currently a radio show producer, an animation intern at Afro-Audacity Animation, and a grant recipient of the Renaissance Project through the Chicago Public Library, I am working to see how my audio, art, and research skills can be used to create pieces and projects dedicated to documenting life and expanding the narratives of those within it. Personally, I am also working on several zine ideas concerning small moments and different forms of relationships, reusing cardboard scraps for a sculpture-drawing, and making bottle cap pins. Outside of creating, you can find me exploring Chicago, volunteering at Midwest Books to Prisoners, seeing what plants can be grown inside, or dragging my friends to events.