I first heard the phrase “Renaissance man” in a ninth-grade history class. Something about it stayed with me: the idea that a life could be built around more than one kind of curiosity. It became my blueprint.
I’ve never wanted to live in one lane. Fashion, technology, photography, real estate, and Africa aren’t separate chapters to me. They are different ways of asking the same question: what can I make, and who can it matter to?
At Cornell, I earned a B.S. in Industrial & Labor Relations, with minors in Business, Fashion Studies, and Information Science. Outside the classroom, I founded BlacBook, produced the Afrik! Fashion Show, and served as Logistics Chair for University Convocation. I learned as much from bringing people together as I did from studying the systems around them.
That interest in systems led to product strategy and operations work in financial services, and an M.S. in Real Estate Development at NYU Schack, with a global concentration. I’m drawn to the places where a good idea meets the practical work of making it real.
Today, New York is home and Ghana is a constant point of connection. My work moves between the two, and across the continent and diaspora — through an independent fashion label, a photography practice, new ventures, and community-focused projects.
Renaissance man. Modern world.
Still the blueprint.