I write about culture, media, identity, and the assumptions people carry into everyday life.

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Most of my work starts with a reaction to something familiar, something people treat as obvious, embarrassing, frustrating, meaningful, or not worth questioning. Instead of moving past it, I look at what’s underneath. Why do people respond the way they do? What gets repeated until it starts to feel normal? Who benefits from a story being told a certain way?

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The pieces move between personal essays and cultural reflection, often landing somewhere in the middle. I’m interested in the gap between what people actually feel and what they’re expected to feel.

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I earned my B.S. in Communication and Sociology from Arizona State University in May 2026, and I’m now pursuing a Master’s degree in Digital Strategy and Audience Engagement. That background shows up in how I read public conversations, media stories, and the patterns people stop noticing. Part of that is public sociology: taking social questions out of academic spaces and bringing them into everyday language.

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Chatpastel is where I put that work. It doesn’t need to be the loudest take in the room. I’m more interested in what people almost say, what they avoid saying, and what they’ve been taught not to question.