I was born in 1990 in Worcester Massachusetts, where I attended a year of fashion design school at Framingham State College. While attending, I began following the living members of The Grateful Dead on a rock & roll music tour around the country, where I sold hand made, up cycled clothing, tie dye T-shirts, food and art.  I later hitchhiked from Haight Ashbury to an anarchist collective in New Mexico and then all the way back to New England.  The bohemian tradition runs deep in my psyche from the absinth drinking impressionists at the Moulin Rouge to the Beat era mystic poets.  I am a designer of the “Psychedelic Renaissance”

I returned to fashion design school at City College of San Francisco and interned with Jerilyn Brandelius,  Rock ad Roll photographer and author of “The Grateful Dead Family Album,"  selling vintage clothing. I later became her caretaker after she suffered a stroke. I currently reside in Emeryville, CA  with my pit bull, Iris, and cat Tutankhamen, and work in branding and music promotion.

In spring of 2020, I completed the City College San Francisco fashion program and won a design competition for a five piece sustainable capsule collection made of hemp and hemp blends. I  was awarded the Presidential Scholarship from Academy of Art University to finish my BFA in Fashion Design. I am dedicated to helping make the fashion industry more sustainable, specializing in handmade slow fashion.

My design philosophy is based on Joseph Campbell’s idea of the living myth and Jungian archetypes. I believe fashion is the way to express the inner vision of ourselves to embody the mythical being that is our higher self and can initiate profound transformation and healing.  I believe in “Fashion Mysticism” as potent form of transformational magic initiated by the outer expression of the inner soul.  I would like to use my design voice to champion causes around environmental justice, women rights and, raise awareness for domestic violence survivors as well as advocate for removing the stigmas surrounding mental health and recovery.