Bio

I am passionate about working at the intersection of design and engineering to create useful products. I am currently focused on bringing soft, flexible circuits (e-textiles) to scale through my company, Loomia. Our mission is to create tools for engineers and designers who are creating next-generation products. Throughout the course of my work at Loomia, I have developed e-textile prototypes and workshops for companies like North Face, Google, PVH, Flextronics, Adidas and Corning. In addition to e-textiles, I have performed computational design and physical computing work for the F.I.T Museum, Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit, CNBC’s Jump Jive and Thrive and Google Creative Lab. I also held creative technology residences at the School of Visual Arts, Autodesk, and Pratt’s BF+DA where I won the BF+DA Technology Innovation Award. My work has built the foundation for 5 granted patents and has led to invited lectures at Universities such as Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, NYU and University of Illinois Champagne Urbana. ACCOLADES: Forbes 30 under 30 Member, Brooklyn Magazine 30 Under 30 Member, NBC BLK 28 under 28 member. TED@NYC selected speaker, Thiel Fellow, Lord and Taylor Rose Award Recipient, Future of Storytelling Fellow. Project Diane ( a database of 28 black women who have raised over $1m in venture funding) APPEARANCES Project Runway, Intel’s America’s next top maker, Good Morning America, CNBC’s Jump Jive and Thrive and NPR. BOOK FEATURES (I am in these books but didn't write them!) Geek Girl rising – Heather Cabot (2017) Crafting Wearables - Sibel Deren Guler , Madeline Gannon & Kate Sicchio (2016) 20 Billion Under 20 - Stacey Ferreira & Jared Kleinert (2015) The Design Process – Karl Aspelund (2014) PREVIOUS WORK: Before LOOMIA, I worked at General Assembly and Interned at Autodesk and Tommy Hilfiger