​I grew up playing in the red clay of Cornelia—a small, rural town in northeast Georgia — home to my Cherokee heritage and the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My vibrant, extended family neighborhood was full of brilliant visionaries. Born an artist with a love for capturing the lives of people and places, I drew floorplans before I knew the word 'architecture.'
 

Before long, my passion for the built environment shifted my focus from visual communicator to shaping space — forming the bedrock of who I am today: a Community Architect devoted to people, place and the power of livable design.