Built from experience. Grounded in real life.

My path into design began with publications and marketing in the credit-union world, where I learned early that even good information can get lost when it is not presented clearly.

That work pushed me to keep learning, and eventually led me to complete a marketing and design certificate through Niagara University. From there, my experience expanded into work for established, multi-million-dollar companies, including trade shows, online marketing, websites, print materials, and the many little pieces that make a brand feel consistent.

I am grateful for that bigger-company experience because it taught me how to think beyond a single project. A website affects the brochure. The brochure affects the event display. The logo has to work everywhere. Good design is not a collection of pretty pieces; it is a system that helps people recognize, understand, and trust the work.

But the projects I kept caring about most were the ones where good design could help good work go farther.

For years, I continued helping churches, ministries, friends, and small businesses alongside my other work. Those projects were personal. They belonged to people who were serving their communities, building something from the ground up, stretching real budgets, and often doing more behind the scenes than anyone realized.

Hive & Co. grew naturally from that space. It brought more than fifteen years of marketing, web, graphic design, and print experience into a smaller studio where the work could remain thoughtful, affordable, direct, and genuinely useful.