The Inbetween.

Somewhere between where I grew up & where I am now, I learned how to try. And I was good at trying. Good at a lot of things, actually, but I didn’t know what to be. I met myself in fragments.

I started as a marine biology major. I liked the ocean. The calm chaos of it, the colors, the marine life. But the science didn’t move me the way the feeling of things did. What I craved was freedom, not formulas. I found it in moments that didn’t seem big at the time. A friend handing me a camera, a playlist that changed the way a walk home felt, a late-night conversation that made the world feel wider. That’s how I found creativity, not through a door, but through a series of cracks in the wall.

With Meaning.

Design. Photography. Music. Film. A little bit of everything. Not a master of one, but a believer in all of it. Because to me, it’s not about tools, it’s about translation. I’m always trying to translate what I feel into something someone else might recognize in themselves.

So I did. Without a big moment or breakthrough, just a series of small sparks. Design. Photography. Videography. Music. Art. Marketing. All blurred together. All parts of the same story. Soccer was always there, too. My safe space. My language. I played the #10, a role made for creativity. It taught me how to read people. How to see openings. How to trust a vision no one else could see yet. That same instinct found its way into everything I did. Into the visuals I created, the stories I told, the way I pieced things together. I became a perfectionist. Detail-obsessed, sure, but not for vanity. For meaning.

I landed in the marketing world, first by necessity, then by choice. Corporate jobs gave me structure. Deadlines, strategy, teamwork. But I was always elsewhere in the details, the textures, the mood of a project. That perfectionist part of me always wanted the story to feel right.

I followed love to Nashville. It felt like a soft reboot. I got back into soccer. Fully. That led me to becoming Marketing Director for Nashville United Soccer Academy, a full-circle moment where I get to blend culture, sport, and creativity.

Now, I draw from everything. My favorite music artists, SoccerBible, video games, 35mm film, jersey textures, and the feeling you get right before something important happens. I still produce music. Still care about typefaces. Still obsessed with the newest cleat release. Still trying to make things that people can feel, even if they don’t know why.

There’s no perfect title for me. Creative Direction. Design. Photography. Video. It all overlaps. I’ve never had just one medium. I’ve never wanted just one lane. I make things. Things that feel human. Things that maybe someone like me needed to see a few years ago.