Raised in East Texas, I moved to Austin as quickly as I could take out loans toward higher education. After graduating from the University of Texas with honors, I spent the next six years in social work with American Cancer Society as a Patient Navigator, then as a Supervisor to Patient Navigators. In 2015, I gathered my wits and pivoted toward commercial illustration, fine painting, set fabrication, merchandise design, photography, and filmmaking, in addition to operations consulting, communications strategy, copywriting, nannying, and caregiving.

15 years in the Live Music Capital of the World went by well-spent among artists, musicians, tech bros, social workers, and remarkable children who call Texas their home. At the end of 2021, Adam & I were married at Barton Springs and decided to move ourselves all the way up to the rural Helderberg Hills of New York. We found a well-loved gem of an old farmhouse under some massive spruce trees and shook hands in agreement that we would make good work here.

By 2023, I designed and launched Sacred Fool Furnishings: an online shop of colorful, poetic, ridiculous home goods and apparel. A little bit Sesame Street, with references to Joan of Arc, millennial cartoons, and the Tarot de Marseille, collecting a piece multiplies the magnetic color coordinates of your life. It stays thrilling to watch bubbly backpacks, lunar throw pillows, and butt shower curtains scatter about the country day by day. A favorite, favorite feeling.

Second to creating for the sake of expression (top priority), my guiding career instincts are to receive, relate, and amplify the honest work of others. The risk of making art for a living has led me to paint for people that I admire and adore, people who make humanity more beautiful with their daily efforts. All of the album artwork, posters, illustrations, merchandise design, and commissioned portraits that have ever come from me are kind relationships, earnest idealism, and collaborations of trust made visible. Living in this lane, I frame my life on Earth as a dynamic and loving exercise.