I started working independently in 2018 and liked it enough to go back and get real training. After getting my diploma in Digital Marketing Communications in 2020, I was working full-time in the field before I'd even graduated.

I've since worked in two different agency settings, and truthfully, that's how I learned agency life isn't for me. What it did give me: real experience managing a full plate of clients. Running social media for around 30 businesses at once, across multiple industries. That kind of volume teaches you fast what actually matters to a client versus what's just noise. These days I bring that same instinct to small art businesses... without all that agency life headache that never needed to be there.

Outside of work, I'm somewhere between a fantasy, sci-fi nerd and someone who'd rather be at an animal sanctuary petting wolves than almost anywhere else. With a partner and four furbabies, all of whom have strong opinions about my work schedule.  I play music when my heart needs to speak; I paint when I want to think with my hands instead of my head, and on any given weekend I'm just as likely to be on a hiking trail or lost in a book as I am mid-rant about whatever game I'm currently obsessed with.