I grew up in the northern part of Chicago where I attended public school systems my whole life until I later attended Marist College (a private school) in New York to play division I soccer and study fashion design. After my first year I gave up soccer to better focus on my fashion career. I spent a summer in NYC interning at Donna Karan and spent one semester abroad in Madrid where I completed my minor in Spanish. The other summers and winter breaks were committed to a retail job at Anthropologie, except for my last winter break from school I spent in NYC again continuing an internship with Donna Karan. I graduated from Marist with my B.P.S. this past May 2012 and am currently working at an art studio just outside of Cincinnati where I teach young girls how to sew.