Shantal Desiree was gifted the passion of art from an early age with a particular attraction to coloring, story-telling, and writing. As her life story unfolded it became a complex weaving that isn’t unique to many of her readers and worked as an early childhood educator, just like her mother. Before she worked in education, she worked in sales, just like her father. Both of her Gen-X parents pursued higher education while simultaneously navigating the American terrain first-generation, American-born children of parents who crossed borders for opportunity.