I’m a Baltimore-born artist who grew up in Minnesota, Chicago, and New Hampshire before landing in my current home of Pennsylvania.

Moving around a lot growing up, reading and art became a large part of my life and were more to me than hobbies. My books and pencils were some of my best friends, and I carried them with me into undergrad, where I received my bachelor’s degree in Art Education, and later to graduate school, where I earned my master’s in Arts Management. Today, I work as an Art Director in educational children’s media and as a co-founder of Doro Health, a wellness studio in Lititz, Pennsylvania.

My career in the arts began in museum education, where I worked as Curator of Education at The Trout Gallery, the Art Museum at Dickinson College, before becoming an Art and AP Art History teacher at Carlisle High School. After receiving my master’s degree in 2019, I worked for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, where I served as Director of the Creative Sector. In 2021, I left to pursue art-making full-time and roamed as a freelance artist until accepting my current role in 2023 and opening Doro the following year.

As the first bi-racial person to be born in both lines of my family, most of my work explores the duality of my existence. I’ve always felt like I’ve had one foot in one world and one foot in another — whether that be a foot in Korea and the other in America or balancing being a wellness girlie and wayward artist with questionable habits. I’ve learned that feet don’t need to be planted in one place or another, in fact, I prefer this third place, this mixed, complex place where many things are true at once. I work in digital design, I also work with paints, I sit in the sauna every morning, and I’ll never say no to a cookie.