Q: What have been some challenges in your pre professional and professional career?

Being a black director in the creative sphere is so intimidating. It is filled with white men with beards, there are just not a lot of us. This world is not made for you, it is made to look like the opposite of you. I find myself in intimidating moments, not because of lack of ability but because I am subjected to failure. I am not the industry standard of what a director or producer should be. Even for an on camera host, I’m not the standard. Batting this all the time, you get imposter syndrome. You’re often afraid to speak up in spaces where not only do you not look like everyone, but you are also one of the youngest people. You doubt yourself, you start to think you are inferior and not meant to be there. That’s one of the biggest hurdles I go over. I have to learn how to trust my ability even when society says I am not supposed to be there. It's not that I'm not supposed to be there, it's that these spaces are not made for me and are not inclusive to those who look like me.