I’m a design thinking, impact accelerating, and social enterprise founding hybrid-professional hailing from Atlanta, Georgia.

I graduated with Highest Honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s (GT) School of Design with a Bachelor’s of Science in Industrial + Product Design. Prior to graduation, I founded Wish for WASH, a social impact startup intended to bring innovation to sanitation after my senior design team was the first all-female team to win the GT InVenture Prize Competition for our invention of the SafiChoo toilet. I have since led Wish for WASH in conducting iterative toilet innovation pilots and research in Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Ethiopia and in the USA (Atlanta) all with a human-centered design, social inclusion and research lens. I continued to pursue my passion for hygienic, equitable, and sustainable sanitation as a Rotary Global Grant Scholar and MSc in Public Health graduate student at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I then sought to grow my business acumen in the Impact Economy and received my accelerated MBA from Emory University's Goizueta Business School as a Consortium Management and Social Enterprise fellow.

As a motivational and educational speaker, I have spoken on 300+ global stages - including as a TedxAtlanta and Women Deliver Power Stage Speaker - and have also been featured on 75+ media platforms including CNN Money, Inc., WIRED, Fast Company, and WSBTV.

I have since founded the Hybrid Hype, a woman-owned global consulting firm, following a decade of doing diverse freelance work with various impact organizations - with scopes that span the United Nations’ 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Sustainable Development Goal targets- such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Toilet Board Coalition, Equilo, Atethemis, Population Services International (PSI), International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), wasted*, IDEO U, and Common Group.

And, as announced on Menstrual Health Day 2020 in Ms. Magazine, I am also a co-creator of Period Futures, which is a playful project that seeks to spark curiosity and conversation around the future of periods. As of May 2021, Period Futures is now a part of the Wish for WASH Collective.

Additionally, in 2020, I joined the inaugural co-design team of the Anchor School and have since served as a co-founder, founding board member, community engagement committee lead and Vice Chair. The Anchor School is a village of educators, families, and community members that partners with 6th through 12th grade students who are developing the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to thrive in school and beyond.

With over a decade of varying experiences that span the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals across 10 countries within the public, private, and social enterprise sectors, I identify as a social impact designer and storyteller who seeks to combine design thinking, business strategy, and evidence-based science to build a more equitable world.

Ultimately, I work to dismantle barriers for those structurally excluded with the goal of co-designing more inclusive futures.

Beyond work, I love service learning, cross cultural immersion, community engagement, fitness adventures and travel photography.

To learn more about my passion for Equity, Social Impact and Human Centered Design, please view my Women Deliver Power Talk from 2019 here:

To learn more about my mission to Learn the Language of People, please view my TEDxAtlanta talk from 2015 here: