My Journey

After the birth of my daughters, I wasn’t only navigating sleepless nights and endless responsibility, I was carrying the quiet weight of postpartum depression. The hardest part wasn’t only the depression itself. It was realizing something wasn’t quite right, that this wasn’t a challenge I could simply “charge through”.

Something fundamental in me was changing.

I felt the pressure to bounce back, to re-enter the world as if nothing had happened, while inside I carried the weight of an atmospheric storm, something building, integrating new with old.

Healing taught me that growth in any season isn’t about hustling harder or doing what I’ve always done. It’s about radical acceptance, re-finding our strengths, and giving ourselves permission to be seen, supported, and fully human.

And there is no shame in it.

That’s what led me to create Momma Chill: a space where we can exhale, process, rebuild confidence, and step into what comes next without the pressure to “bounce back.” Because we are all holding far more than we recognize.

My Background

My path has always lived at the intersection of ambition and purpose.

As a first-generation daughter of immigrants, I learned early how to navigate two worlds, balancing cultures, languages, and expectations while finding my own voice somewhere in between. That experience taught me how to move between identities, hold complexity, and build belonging wherever I landed.

I studied International Relations and Political Science at UC Davis, drawn to the questions underneath systems: who gets supported, who gets left out, and what it takes to rebuild after upheaval.

After college, I began my career in advocacy as a Victim Advocate with the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, supporting trauma survivors in Oakland. That work shaped how I hold space, meet people where they are, and honor the messy middle where systems, policy, and humanity intersect.

From there, I moved into mission-driven work across San Francisco nonprofits, supporting programs through a mix of financial analysis, data, and operational strategy, and eventually into international development consulting. I worked on USAID proposals focused on women’s economic empowerment and workforce development, and I saw how structural change can transform not just individuals, but communities.

When I pursued my MBA at William & Mary, I carried that same purpose. As a McGlothlin Leadership Scholar and MBA Class President (while pregnant with my first daughter), I learned that leadership and motherhood don’t cancel each other out, they can amplify each other.

At Amazon, I led multi-year customer experience strategies and product visions, guiding teams through major change and restructuring. During this chapter, I had my second daughter and learned firsthand both the resilience and the cost of being a mom in spaces that expect full speed.

Each chapter, Advocacy, Development, Leadership, Corporate Innovation, and Motherhood, gave me new tools and a deeper perspective. Together, they shaped Momma Chill: a space where mothers don’t just survive postpartum, but find ways to heal, thrive, and reimagine what’s possible.

And if you find yourself in the midst of change or transition, please know: this space is for you, too.

Here, we honor all forms of evolution, and the courage it takes to soften, rebuild, and rise again.