A fixture in Michigan’s fashion industry, I’ve served as a fashion journalist, editor, stylist and nonprofit founder. As editor of StyleLine, metro Detroit’s largest magazine, I covered fashion, beauty and home design for over a decade, and was a regular media contributor on Detroit’s top news stations.

 

In 2012, I founded Detroit Garment Group, a fashion nonprofit that ran a decade of workforce and industry development programs, including Michigan’s first industrial sewing certification. In 2015, I launched Detroit Sewn, a full-service factory dedicated to Made-in-USA manufacturing. The factory remained open for more than eight years until I was ultimately forced to shut it down.

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I’m the author of Split in Two (Zest Books, 2009) and I Do, Part 2 (Norlights Press, 2011), and I self-published three novels: All That We Hide, The Makeover and Saturday Nights at the God Café. My writing has appeared in Women’s Health, Self, HuffPost, Figure, The Detroit News. and Hour Detroit. I’ve given a TEDxDetroit talk titled “Fashion Unfurled: The Industry No One Associates with Michigan”.