My work is a socio-analyzation of my interests and passions in life. As a child, growing up poor in public housing was the way I learned that I was different in the world. People saw me differently based on where I lived, on my skin color, on my size, what I wore and what I couldn’t wear due to financial reasons. Before the age of 15, I experienced all of these biases and more and at that point in my life, it changed my view on the world. 

 

In 2011, I was granted a two-year scholarship to attend a pre-college program made for low-income and/or minority students at Parsons School of Design. It was there that I fell in love with art and design and what quality, free education could look like. It was also this experience that led me to critique museums and educational spaces and how they often outcast low-income communities

and communities of color. This caused two questions that I sought to answer “How to reimagine museum spaces and art education?” and “How to construct and reclaim museum spaces to provide new creative and educational systems for overlooked and undervalued communities?”

This was how District 28. was founded back in 2018 during my senior thesis at Parsons. 

 

Currently, I am working on building up District 28. while also creating wearable art, designs, and media that speak to my upbringing, as well as my cultural, national and individual identity. I am always searching on how to create spaces and art to help people like myself but also looking for ways to give a voice to the voiceless.