When I was a child, I often choreographed full-scale versions of ballets for my younger siblings in our living room. I have always “dreamed big” and tried to find ways to bring my creative vision to life. Though I considered other pathways in my life, no matter my other interests, I always returned to my first love – dance – and found that making a career out of it would be my greatest creative challenge.

In college, I studied graphic design on the side and created web and print media for clubs and small businesses attached to UC Santa Barbara. My first job out of college was as the in-house graphic designer for a local coffee company, working on ads, sales, labels, and other print media.

After starting my dance company, Selah Dance Collective, in 2014, I dove headfirst into web design and graphics for social media, which soon exploded as Instagram and Facebook became major marketing platforms. The difference between marketing (and selling) the coffee company's products and garnering interest and financial support for my dance company (which eventually became a nonprofit) was stark, and it required a lot of trial and error to figure out how to tailor my efforts to create a plan that best fit the needs of each thing I was doing.

For the past 13 years, I have worked for numerous local businesses in the Southern California area to create and implement marketing plans, build and update websites, create branding packages and logos, and adapt to the dynamic needs of nonprofits and local businesses that rely on an authentic, inspiring voice to reach their community.

I have experience managing teams of employees, fulfilling long-term service contracts, editing and producing mailers and magazines, and creating entire organizational and educational programs from scratch. I love the challenge of finding a new way to solve an old problem or tapping into my tried-and-true methods to solve new ones.

Learn more about my dance work here.

Learn more about my design work here.