Yvette Michele Booth

I spent a decade keeping the geek and the artist in separate rooms. Different closets, different vocabularies, definitely different Spotify playlists. The engineer had a degree in applied mathematics and physics because my mother — lovingly, aggressively — decided that "starving artist" was not a career path she was signing off on. The artist just kept sneaking out to make things anyway.

Here's the plot twist though: the artist was never the reckless one. Give me a theme, a deadline, and a budget, and I don't flinch — I thrive. Turns out running enterprise PMOs for 15+ years quietly trained me to do the thing most artists dread: plan a creative vision and actually deliver it, on time, on budget, on brief. It's the blessing hiding inside the discipline.

Still, I kept the two identities filed separately — until a collector challenged me not to keep the two worlds separate. They just looked at my work and refused to let me pretend it was only art, or only technical — daring me to stop hiding one half to make the other more believable.

That moment didn't just merge two rooms. It clarified something I'd been circling for years of leading enterprise projects, chasing certifications in AI, Scrum, and Agile, and now building frameworks for responsible AI adoption: I am, and have always been, the human in the loop.

Not a passive observer watching a process run itself — an expert who knows when to catch the anomaly, question the output, or correct the error before it becomes a costly mistake. That's true whether I'm reviewing a project dashboard or standing back from a canvas to see if the color is lying to me. Expertise, not just oversight, is what makes anything — AI, art, or a well-run PMO — actually trustworthy.

I'm an artist first — whether I'm standing in front of a canvas or working on complex projects. My NOW is led by the artist who happens to love being a geek. I don't practice technical work and occasionally make art on the side; I practice as an artist, full stop, and it just so happens that complex projects, AI frameworks, and enterprise rollouts are some of the mediums I work in. Same eye, same instinct, same belief: tools, timelines, and even talent are only as good as the responsible human holding them accountable.

And like any creator worth her paint, I'm evolving. I'm shifting from Project Management and PMOs toward Futurism and AI frameworks — in both worlds. The geek side is building what's next for responsible AI adoption. The artist side is already there, experimenting with new visual work that folds technology directly into the canvas. I'm still learning this in real time, right alongside anyone paying attention — which is sort of the point. And there's more coming that I can't wait to show you.

I'm a geek. I'm an artist. I'm the human in the loop, becoming the futurist. And I have at least one unreasonably strong opinion about how boring most bios are.