I’m a Ghanaian-American that doesn't speak the language, but loves the food. I know, it's very upsetting. I’m from Northern Virginia, but my father was born and raised in Ghana, West Africa while my mother was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area. With that, my life has been pretty split as far as cultural practices and mindsets, which has truly molded the human I am today. 

Growing up I always thought I had to fit into the mold, but the truth is I am the mold. We all are and that’s something that I want to emphasize with my work as an artist. I want the stigmatization around black women to be erased. We are strong, powerful, resilient and forces to be reckoned with, but I don’t want that to be our only identity. I don’t want it to be the norm to only showcase black women when there's a story about pain and struggle to be told. We can be the girl next door, we can be a part of love triangles, we can be princesses and anything else our heart desires. Effective change doesn’t happen in seconds, it's slow and gradual. But when the impact is made, it's significant. Nobody said black women will be destigmatized in a day, but we as artists can put in the effort to make the shift in our brains and help curate the shift for others.