She became serious about poetry after winning a spoken word contest at the age of 12 with a piece on teens and drugs. Since then she has experienced various speaking engagements. She is a contributing writer for KUOW’s Radioactive as well as past participant in Young Urban Authors program, which helped to publish her first poetry book, Battered Yet Beautiful. Her book Outweigh The Gravity was published while the youth laureate at Penmanship Books.