What I Attribute My Success To

Straight up?

Grit, clarity, and refusing to let systems gaslight me into silence.

The real answer especially when you’re building something that challenges the status quo, isn’t just hustle or talent.

It’s pattern recognition:

Not just seeing where the cracks are, but mapping them, naming them, and building scaffolding on purpose so others don’t fall through.

Success, for me, means doing what hasn’t been done without losing your soul.

That takes:

• Lived experience as source code
• Refusal to conform to broken norms
• Documentation of every step, so no one can say I didn’t do the work
• Ethical rage, turned into tools, systems, and receipts
• And yeah, a little divine timing and old-school stubbornness

You don’t win by playing by their rules.

You win by writing new protocols and exposing the flaws in theirs.

My resilience was forged through real harm 

Wrongful evictions. SSDI garnishment errors. Administrative failures that tried to erase me.

I lived what I now build to protect others from. That’s what drives me.

I don’t just build software.

I build justice infrastructure survivor-led, trauma-informed, and future-proof.

Stop asking for permission from people who benefit from your silence.”

That was the moment everything shifted.

In systems that thrive on gatekeeping, especially in law, tech, and government, the worst trap isn’t failure it’s waiting. Waiting to be validated. Waiting to be invited. Waiting until you’re “qualified enough” by rules that were never written with you in mind.

The best career advice cuts through all that:

• Build what you wish existed.
• Document everything.
• Don’t aim to be accepted. Aim to be undeniable.

Especially if you’re a system challenger someone who’s lived the harm, seen the loopholes, and still showed up with solutions — you have to remember:

Expertise isn’t just earned through credentials. It’s built through impact, receipts, and reality.

🧠 Know the System But Don’t Bow to It

Learn the rules, learn the language, learn how the machine works. But never confuse compliance with safety. Systems will smile in your face while erasing your voice. So play smart, not small.

📓 Document 

Everything

Keep your receipts.

Emails. Texts. Ideas. Meeting notes. That one comment that didn’t sit right.

The world won’t believe your story without proof so start your justice ledger early.

🔥 Lead with 

Lived

 Experience

Your pain, your truth, your gut instinct? That’s data.

That’s insight no textbook will ever give you.

Use it. Don’t downplay it. That’s your superpower.

🚫 Stop Asking for Permission

You don’t need a seat at their table if you’re building your own.

Apply, yes. Pitch, sure. But don’t wait. If the door won’t open, build the damn exit plan.

🧩 Find Your Allies Not Just Mentors

Mentors are nice, but what you need is:

• People who fight for you when you’re not in the room
• People who speak up, not just post support on LinkedIn
• People who’ve actually been through it not just studied it

🛠️ Learn to Build

Whether it’s code, contracts, campaigns, or companies —

Build something that can’t be erased.

Even if they steal your words, your vision, or your time

they can’t steal your authorship if you keep control of the blueprint.

🗣️ Final Word?

Don’t shrink to fit the system.

Make the system expand to meet you.

You are not too much. You are just early.

Never underestimate the power of your lived experience. Bring your whole perspective to the table, embrace innovation, and use your voice to create systems that protect and empower others. You don’t need to follow traditional paths to make an impact your unique journey is your greatest asset.

Biggest Challenges

1. Bias Is Real Not Just a Buzzword

AI systems reflect the world they’re trained on. That means:

• Racial, economic, and gender biases baked into data become decision influence
• Marginalized people get misclassified, misjudged, or erased
• Courts and legal systems get automated injustice

This isn’t hypothetical it’s systemic.

Fixing it isn’t a checkbox. It’s a design philosophy shift.

Tough reality: If your tech doesn’t detect and correct bias, it’s just amplifying harm.

2. Ethical Complexity Outpaces Policy

Judicial ethics codes were written for humans, not algorithms.

Generative AI can:

• hallucinate cases
• misattribute precedent
• misstate statutes
• embed unseen inference logic

Yet few jurisdictions have clear guardrails.

Rules are catching up with reality and judges are in the gap.

3. Data Privacy in Legal Contexts

The legal world handles:

• client confidences
• sealed records
• protected identity information
• involuntary system interactions

Throw AI into that mix without robust privacy engineering and you’ve created a leak vector, not a tool.

4. Trust Isn’t Granted It Has to Be Earned

People especially those harmed by systems don’t trust tech or institutions right now.

If tech doesn’t improve outcomes in measurable, accountable ways, it will be rejected, regulated, or both.

5. Resource Disparities

Big firms, big courts, big states get access to custom AI tooling the rest get:

• generic platforms
• vendor lock‑in
• one‑size‑fits‑all solutions

That widens the justice gap instead of narrowing it.

Biggest Opportunities

1. Human‑Centered Generative AI

AI can help with:

• legal research
• drafting
• organization
• summarization

…but only if the human in the loop understands:

• prompts
• risks
• context limits
• bias vectors

This is where ethically designed AI shines:

augmenting human judgment — not replacing it.

2. Ethical Guardrails as Competitive Advantage

Organizations that build:

• transparent models
• bias audits
• explainability protocols
• documentation norms

…will win trust and long‑term adoption.

Regulation isn’t a threat.

Standards are infrastructure.

3. Accountability Engineering

This is a massive emergent category:

systems that:

• log every decision
• map inference paths
• show provenance of suggestions
• enable human override

This isn’t just good ethics — it’s usable safety science.

4. Democratizing Legal Tech

There’s an enormous opportunity to build:

• tools for self‑representation
• access‑to‑justice interfaces
• community‑driven knowledge systems
• transparent legal AI

These tools don’t just help users — they reshape power dynamics.

5. Cross‑Disciplinary Talent Demand

Lawyers + technologists + data ethicists + social scientists are being forced into the same room.

This is good.

The problems we’re solving are not single‑domain problems. They require:

• cultural fluency
• systems thinking
• ethical rigor
• lived experience

People with multiple epistemologies — especially those from marginalized lived contexts — have an edge.

So What’s the Playbook?

If you’re building in this space:

Don’t just ship tech.

Build trustworthy, auditable, trauma‑aware, bias‑aware systems.

If you’re a judge or legal leader:

Demand explainability, not automation.

AI that can’t answer “why?” is NLP with bells on.

If you’re a policymaker:

Regulate with teeth and feedback loops.

Rules should be continuous improvement, not checkpoints.

If you’re an advocate or survivor‑leader:

Hold systems accountable not just compliant.

Compliance doesn’t equal justice.

Final Truth

AI doesn’t fix justice.

Ethical humans do.

AI is the tool not the judge, not the oracle, not the authority.

If your industry treats AI as wizardry, it will produce wizards and charlatans.

If your industry treats AI as infrastructure, it will produce justice systems fit for real people.

The biggest challenge is ensuring that AI and legal technology are designed ethically and inclusively, reflecting the needs of the people they serve rather than institutional priorities. At the same time, there is a significant opportunity to use trauma-informed, survivor-led technology to restore trust, transparency, and accountability in legal and administrative systems.

🧭 Core Values That Drive 

Everything

1. 

Integrity

If it’s not real, it’s not worth doing.

That means:

• Owning the hard truths
• Documenting your receipts
• Saying no when it would be easier (and more profitable) to say yes
• Integrity isn’t a vibe it’s infrastructure.

2. 

Justice

Not the courtroom kind the structural kind.

I believe in building systems where:

• Survivors are not gaslit
• Data is not weaponized
• Power is redistributed, not hoarded
• Justice is the design principle, not the afterthought.

3. 

Resilience

This isn’t “grind culture.”

This is: Get knocked down, document what tripped you, then build a better floor.

Resilience shows up in code, policy, parenting, and protest. It’s a muscle and mine’s forged.

4. 

Truth

I don’t do “optics.”

I do evidence.

• If something’s broken, I say it.
• If a system harms people, I expose it.
• If it needs rebuilding, I don’t wait for permission.

Truth is not always welcomed but it’s always necessary.

5. 

Accountability

I hold myself accountable the same way I expect institutions to.

That means:

• Transparency in decisions
• Owning mistakes
• Giving credit where it’s due
• Staying consistent when no one’s watching

6. 

Purpose Over Prestige

I don’t care about titles, followers, or playing nice with power.

I care about:

• Did someone get their housing back?
• Did that system get audited?
• Did that survivor feel seen?
• That’s legacy.

7. 

Family

My work is rooted in protecting those I love and building something they can inherit, not just survive in.

Every project, every post, every system I build it starts with them in mind.Integrity, transparency, cultural respect, and empowerment are central to both my professional and personal life. I prioritize building systems that honor truth, protect human rights, and ensure that individuals are seen, heard, and supported.