I’m a design thinking, global health consulting, 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 130+ global stages - including as a TedxAtlanta and Women Deliver Power Stage Speaker - and have also been featured on 50+ 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, 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) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).

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!

With a decade of various water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), global health, and gender equity experiences across 10 countries in research, communications, and management roles within the public, private, and social enterprise sectors, I identify as a social impact designer and storyteller who seeks to couple design thinking and business acumen with evidence-based science to build a more inclusive world because

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

To learn more about my passion for Gender Equity, WASH 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: