Product Design Engineer, Growth 𖧧

I shape various mediums of expression and allow them to shape me. I particularly enjoy making things out of other things: hair clips out of keycaps, collaged posters for local shows, borrowing hooks to write songs, and most recently the Bjork swan dress out of tights and feather boas for Halloween.

When I was in high school, I started a tutoring business to provide specialized education for neurodivergent kids in my neighborhood. Later on, I started a haircutting business in the hallway of my dorm room called deep cuts by calypso, where I took weight off the heads of over fifty students in a year.

At UC San Diego, I became enamored with college radio, where my show tweegazing was voted best theme (shoutout KSDT!) As dj c4lypso, I became a musician, audio engineer, event organizer, and creative lead, to shape how students interact with music on campus. My favorite parts were organizing shows for artists like Chanel Beads and hosting a student-musician interview series. At some point, I recorded and released an EP with my band dog sees god, performed live a handful of times, and carried like five tons of audio equipment (sparking my fitness journey).

I was a creative director at Tokens Magazine, where I led a team of thirty to help build a community of over a thousand creatives and make the first edition of our magazine come to life.

And as their campus growth leader, I spread the good name of Framer, where my tendency to throw elaborately themed events came in handy.