Background
My
Story
I grew up in Opelousas, Louisiana — a small city with a big cultural footprint. Basketball, ballet, mock trial, civic councils, beauty pageants. I loved every corner of it, and I loved the wildly different communities that came with each one. That early experience of being multi-hyphenate in a place that didn't have a box for it became the foundation for everything.
Philosophy found me at Princeton, and I never looked back. It gave me permission to ask the better question — not just what is happening, but why it matters and what should be done about it.
The summer before my senior year I interned at Google's Mountain View campus — an early window into how technology shapes culture at scale.
I graduated from Princeton in 2017 — and almost immediately left the country. As a Henry Luce Scholar, I moved to Seoul, where I became the first Creative Director at Asian Boss — a venture-backed media startup reaching millions of viewers globally. I built production teams from scratch in New Delhi, Tokyo, and Shanghai. I learned what it means to make something from nothing, fast, in an unfamiliar place, with people who don't share your language.
I stayed in Korea through 2020, deepening my roots there. I was awarded a U.S. Embassy Seoul Public Diplomacy Grant in 2018–2019, applying design thinking to diversity and inclusion programming. Then came a season of pure creative entrepreneurship: Mo's Creole, MoPalooza, hosting and dancing at events including GQ Korea nights — building community and culture from the ground up in a country that had become a second home.
I came back to the United States and landed in Houston in 2021. The throughline across everything — the philosophy degree, the media startup, the diplomacy work, the pop-ups, the consulting — is the same question I've always been asking: what is the story, and how do we tell it so it lands?
