I grew up in housing projects on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, attended the School of Performing Arts as a flute major, graduated with a BA in Religion and Philosophy and have been a successful commercial photographer and fine artist for the past 36 years. I am also the Executive Director of the Cab Calloway Foundation and in that role, I advocate for a paradigm shift in education. My love of story and culture is steeped in my lifelong curiosity. My hope is to shine some light on our many communities and help to lift our sense of the social contract higher than it has been... for some time.