Born two weeks after my family was evacuated for a hurricane in Sarasota, Florida and during the weekend my father lost the job my parents had moved down for, I was aware from an early age of the tumults that life could bring. From Florida > Chicago > St. Louis > Chicago > New York > LA > New York (with a quick stint in Montreal), I developed into a social observer and experiential learner, learning about myself and others from a variety of communities that spanned blue collar middle class, professional upper middle class, and economically impoverished juxtaposed beside ultra wealthy communities with all the perspectives that came along with it. I began working at the age of 12 where I waited tables, cooked, washed dishes, designed menus, and organized large events for my family’s Cajun restaurant outside of Chicago. I later worked in a copy shop, a rice pudding shop, a gourmet grocery store, as a production assistant, a documentary associate producer, a cad designer for fashion, in public relations, in media advertising sales and marketing and as a barista. All of these experiences have added up to a curiosity, care and observance of the human condition and it is through acting and creating that I am able to call those up, express their variety, and to step into a more active role to relate the condition back to be an agent for change.