About 

I grew up between the worlds of Alhambra, California, and South Los Angeles, rooted in community and skateboard culture. After graduating from USC with a degree in Communications, my passion for design was sparked after creating a bunch of cool stuff for classmates at General Assembly in 2014. I blended my passions of marketing, development and illustration together. 

Before that I lived in Sydney, Australia and New York, while doing a bit of everything – marketing, being a barber, teaching math, and coaching skateboarding. The theme in any profession I've been in, is to empower the people I'm around.

As the Founder of Ground Masa, I launched a social enterprise to tackle major issues in education, specifically in design and financial literacy. I’ve also consulted for both small and large companies.

I believe connection and relationships are at the heart of great design. I'm a dot connector and building community and understanding within teams is my specialty. I see creativity as a way to unite diverse perspectives, in order to improve what gets put out into the world.

A few things that make me happy: Family. I make videos for my YouTube channel, Como Design Studio. Cooking up pad see ew is my forte. Lao Tzu’s wisdom keeps me grounded. 

And I've got about 100 plant babies, a couple kids and counting. 

-Jeremi Dudu