Once, someone on Twitter (back when it was still sane) DM-ed me to tell me that my website’s About page was so good that it made them tear up.
This is not that About Page. My deepest apologies if you do not tear up while reading this; I fear I have already oversold it. But maybe I haven’t completely lost my touch.
Since I was very little, I’ve been a self-starter, taking my own ideas and having the initiative, imagination, and self-sufficiency that got the job done, whether that was starting numerous bands during recess periods or organizing and advertising a neighborhood-wide garage sale (although I must admit that the signs were all in Comic Sans and Curlz MT). When I was just thirteen and obsessive about the fashion industry, I read all about how bloggers were going to New York Fashion Week and resolved to do the same. Less than a year and about a few hundred email requests later, I showed up at NYFW with three standing-room-only tickets. As my vision evolved (and my high school self became embarrassed of the blog’s name), I launched version 2.0 in Alkaline + Chrome and continued attending and reviewing fashion week shows, discussing fashion industry news, and diving deep into yearly ad campaigns. Many late nights were spent squeezing in my homework, while I spent early mornings blogging in my favorite teacher’s classroom. I built more color-coded spreadsheets and filled out more planners than anyone else I knew, just to manage it all.
In college, my passion for amplifying my peers’ voices and supporting their work grew, after our outlet of MTV Founders was shuttered in the infamous pivot to video. I partnered with a fellow Fordham student to launch ZEE, an online platform for Gen Z voices to discuss that which was important to them, whether that be politics or pop culture, it was all valid and encouraged. While ZEE didn’t last long (I went to London to study abroad), the passion for amplifying Gen Z voices evolved into Generation Slay, a podcast that I co-created, hosted, produced, and edited. With Generation Slay, I interviewed the Gen Z creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs who were “slaying” it in their fields and making big names for themselves, whether that was because of, or despite, their age. Generation Slay ended during the pandemic, but I maintain that I was right ahead of the curve on the Gen Z hype cycle with that one.
In my professional, non-entrepreneurial life, I worked at design firms and ad agencies, building strategies for clients across many industries and forming entirely new departments and products based in cultural intelligence.
I’ve also kept up my writing — but in more casual forms. I switched from blogging to journaling, eventually to Substack where I have been woefully inconsistent in my publishing schedule. As of 2024, I’m working on a novel (!!), and so in my free time, you can find me in a local cafe, clacking away on my computer and chugging an iced vanilla latte.