After a decade inside Marvel and DC, I had a clear read on why the characters didn't look like me: almost no Black people were making acquisition decisions. The pipeline reflected the room. I couldn't change the room from the inside, so I changed what came from the outside.

The inverse of the problem was the premise. If the industry produced almost no Black characters because there were almost no Black decision-makers, the question became: what would a world look like if being Black wasn't the exception but the rule?

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I wrote the book I couldn't find. Then I took it directly to the audience instead of back through the same gatekeepers.

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Kickstarter. 28 days. A $29,999 goal.

$91,973 raised. 307% of goal.

Funded in 3 days.

BLACK became the foundation of a shared universe.

Netflix optioned it.

The New York Times covered it.

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I don't just develop strategy for others' IP. I've built, launched, expanded, and sold my own.

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