In high school, I teamed up with teens Kylie and Brandon to create children's books to raise funds for charity. By selling these at Silicon Valley Comic Con, Pretend City Children's Museum, Alameda Maker Fair, seasonal craft and art fairs, and other venues, I raised almost $2400 for Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter and Resilience Birthright, an environmental non-profit. I created all illustrations for both books. Beware the Mighty Mantis Shrimp was a 2020 Scholastic Gold Key Award winner for comic art.