Here now on our precious planet earth I am life in constant creation. I am your reflection . I am a child of and devotee to the eternal unfurling. My earliest memories of creating are with my mother, Valerie. She is the daughter of Vivastine. Vivastine taught Valerie how to sing in the Morning Star baptist church choir in Mt. Clemen's Michigan. Valerie then taught me how to harmonize while driving to ballet classes. On Sundays in our living room, as Sade echoed through the house, she handed me a scarf and told me the meaning behind the lyrics, urging me to "feel the story" and come up with choreography. At 14, I began my professional performing arts career under the direction of Debbie Allen. I attended Point Park Conservatory for the Arts, majoring in Jazz Dance, and then, at 22, I moved to my paternal homeland of T¨ürkiye.

For ten years, I cultivated my work in Istanbul, where my AfroTurk Soul Journey began. This work was channeled through intercultural collaborative work in the mediums of in choreography, jazz music and DJ projects which were regularly in residency at Mandarin Oriental, W, NUBLU Istanbul and Soho House. In 2016, I was featured in an ALL Magazine interview for my work as a woman artist and entrepreneur in Istanbul, where I persisted in business endeavors despite being in opposition to the dominantly male paradigm. I spent these formative years of my adult career happily based in Istanbul as my launchpad while I performing original and commissioned work in Paris, London, Prague, Shanghai, and Rome. Today, I work based out of NYC on my artistry, in nonprofit development and continue to forge my path as an academic and advocate for the transformative, galvanizing, and healing power of the arts.

As a new mother, I recognize how deeply tied my liberation is to the rest of humanity. And despite being on this often lonely road, the generative stages of my social practice have been born from motherhood. When I can find a restful place in silence and darkness, I sit in the generous womb of creative potential, allowing a spark from this state. I look to constellations and the flora to inform my approach, timing, and aesthetics. I am also inspired by the oral and written history of my ancestry and especially look to all of the mothers' legacy work. In order to transcend their limitations, my people have alchemized their pain to create rhythm and blues, the dozens, stand-up comedy, Turkish folk music, and vaudeville performance. I like to think of my current work not as inter-disciplinary but an un-disciplinary intervention that amplifies the ongoing social struggles for sustaining life. I serve as a conduit to reclaim collective power to ensure and maintain life through art as a form of resistance to hegemonic powers.

I graduated summa cum laude in 2023 with an M.A. In Arts Management and Entrepreneurship from The New School, I was a 2024 Brooklyn Arts Exchange Parent Artist in Residence, I am the 2024-2025 Residency Intensive Artist with Sibyl's Shrine.