Rooted on the East Coast. Growing in Atlanta.

My cannabis entrepreneurship journey began in Charlotte, NC with Hemp Neighborhood Store where we sold curated CBD wellness products. Next in Newark, New Jersey — in the heart of one of the most underserved urban markets on the East Coast. I co-founded Plantivia Wellness there as a retail cannabis and wellness store, built the brand from the ground up, developed the community relationships, and ran the patient education programming. That experience gave me something no classroom can teach: what it looks like when a community finally has access to a trusted, knowledgeable cannabis wellness operator — and what it costs that community when they don't.

I brought that knowledge back to Georgia, where I was born and raised, where I hold an active commercial real estate license, and where I have deep roots in South Dekalb, Southwest Atlanta and South Fulton. Plantivia is the next evolution — built specifically for Georgia's first-in-the-nation independent pharmacy dispensing model, and designed to serve the communities south of I-20 that still have no medical cannabis access point.