As an adolescence, we usually dream about the direction we would like our life to go, within our career paths, what was your dream during this time?

• “I was always interested in New York, or big cities just in general if you ask my sister. But, New York…tv shows we were watching at the time, Gossip Girl, Sex in the City, glorified this life as an independent career woman in the big city. New York just seemed so much cooler than any other city to move into. But there wasn’t really a lot of big cities to move to in the country anyways. I can’t speak other languages so made no sense to go international for my first year…not yet. But, yea I just think I always had that mindset I was gonna get out of Dayton. To the point, I wouldn’t remember the geography of Dayton. My dad was so annoyed when I learning how to drive, like oh you don’t know where this is. I would say, I ain’t staying here, I don’t need to dedicate time and memory to learn an area I will never be in again.”
• “Dream to get out of Dayton. I knew I wanted to do stuff in media, it was either in LA or NY. I picked NY again cause it was just the influence I was around growing up. New York was also closed, but really far, but closer so it was a lot more attainable to me and my cousin was going to college up there to, so that made it easier. Also, in New York you would hear about people from New York always got a chip on their shoulder, and if you can make it New York you can make it anywhere. I thought if I could make it in this town I could make it anywhere, I was like why not go to the biggest challenge first. It’s already a media metropolis place. So 2 in 1.”

Do you believe in happenstance or fate? Or both?

• “I believe in fate, but I think people can change their fate. So maybe I believe in happenstance. I believe in happenstance.”

What was your 4-year plan?

• “Plug away, work as hard as I can in college. So, I can get a job in the media industry when I get out. I have a cousin that wanted to go into the media, she wanted to sing more so. But she wasn’t doing what she needed to do in college. So there was no way she was going to get where she wanted to be by the time she was out. Me, I knew that I wanted to do the media industry, I knew I wanted to be in the media industry by the time I got out. New York is already such a competitive place, I already go to a no-name college in Brooklyn. I know that I would need to get all experience I can, all the internships. That’s why I did all those internships. There’s no way you were going to tell me I’m not educated enough for an opportunity and pick some NYU kid over me just because of that because I have way more experience in the industry than a NYU boy any day of the week.”

How do you view college now?

• “I didn’t need it. If I wanted to do the film, I should have just went into it. But, nooo, I needed it. I would have never gotten to this point without college. Its a screwed system, that benefits the government more than the youth.”

During your post-graduation phase of life, are there any lessons you learned and would like to share?

• “Try your best to stick to the plan, it’s easy to get off track. Because you think opportunities are fleeting, if you get the opportunity to be in the field you wanna be in the field you wanna be in but it doesn’t pay as much. do it. I’m 23 right now, ima be 27 whether I like it or not. I rather my 27 be a lot different had I done something in production filmwise rather try later then try to settle cause there isn’t enough time.”