How would you describe the impact your business has had on the community?
When I was just a young girl, I never saw that there were people making money by doing design. As a teenager, there was a show called “Designing Women” and it must have played a part in what I was doing. It was four women were designing and they had this African American man that was like their errand guy. So that left me with the impression that there aren’t Black people in interior design.
What I have noticed is that the more visible I’ve become in my city — San Diego — the more young African American women and men that I’ve seen enter the field. It’s just inspiring even for myself to know that I’m helping broaden the awareness of a profession that can help to support your family, that you can be creative in and be a problem solver in and affect change.
