I've been a lover of art my entire life. Somewhere along the way, I got quite good at it and started winning multiple drawing and painting awards throughout my time in public school. When I was 14, I got my first illustration gig drawing houses for a local real estate agent. In 2015, I won a presidential merit scholarship at Pratt Institute and moved to New York City to deepen my study.

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I graduated with from Pratt Institute with honors and a degree in Graphic Design and Illustration in 2019, but my career really started while I was still in college. In 2017 when I interned as an editorial illustrator at the leftist online political magazine Salon Media. I drew portraits of almost every politician in the US Congress and Senate, along with numerous presidents and talk show hosts. Through Salon, I got the opportunity to work as an illustrator for Médecins Sans Frontières. As I struggled to pay for college in NYC, I took up a part-time event portrait artist gig and drew hundreds of people at events all over the tri-state area. My art got the attention of ex-Landor executive Andrea Katz, who in 2018 hired me as a graphic design intern at her Manhattan branding agency Ideon. Under her mentorship/apprenticeship, I learned the ins and outs of all this branding, strategy, and business. In March of 2020, right before Covid-19 overtook the country, I left New York City and started working remotely part time for the boutique branding & marketing agency Bright Development, (where I am now the Lead Creative Designer). Still looking to find myself in illustration, in 2020 through Amplify Education, I illustrated a 48-page children's book "Kate's Book" for the Texas Public Education system. I went corporate in 2022 and got my first salaried position as a full time graphic designer at the world leading bio-chemical start-up Solugen. The office politics & cubicle life did not suite me and in 2023, I left for the agency life with Bright again and started my independent branding studio Jegayo.