I am that Skittles commercial - I always felt like a walking contradiction. You could chalk that up to people making assumptions about me based on my appearance, but if anything its made me appreciate the ironies in life.

Being an adoptee taught me to live and find balance in the contradictions early,

Who could I have been versus who am I now?

I've grown comfortable in the in-between, carrying both identities, and that duality shapes everything about how I approach design.

Where you begin matters less than where you end, and even that pales in comparison to how you got there.