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About Me

I'm a Dallas-based creative ops specialist and sometimes food photographer from a tiny town in Iowa. In 2013, I graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design, earning a BFA in photography. After which I began work as a photo editor and graphic designer at Patina Restaurant Group before moving to Team One as a producer. Since then, I was recruited to open the Dallas office’s Art Production department, and I’ve been making trouble in Texas ever since. Especially now that I’ve gone to the client side with my work at Chime and now Angi.

When I'm not on set or deep into my Monday boards, you'll find me running around West Dallas, trying to balance in warrior three and wine tasting with a New Yorker by my side. I love bubble baths, bagels, making iconograghic, color-coded maps and turning basic errands into adventures.

PONI:

Check out my creative consulting street cred on Poni  – with my hometown sister and my ink slaying friend, we bring creativity to the masses with our event creating and consulting. Poni believes a little creativity goes a long way to better one’s life and that there are no limitations to the imagination. In our fast-paced society, opportunities to use our hands and to create are far too infrequent as we are being oversaturated with mass-produced sameness.

Poni seeks to change this. Poni is committed to creativity.

KIPPISTRUT:

In 2016 Kippistrut, a non-traditional creative consulting firm formed. Our mission, to give culturally relevant, concise, scalable branding to restaurant and brewery start-ups. We saw mass success with poke start-up giving their business a 30% revenue edge against the competition at similar venues.

Our willingness to deep dive into the story, strategy and customer journey gave us a leg-up with similarly situated business ventures. This included a sake start-up for which we helped create the 360 brand, craft the narrative, build the physical space, plan branded events, and more.

While Kippistrut has remained on hold for a hot minute, it’s a partnership and good work I still hold high in my personal canon.