Candace is a multi-hyphenate creative and business leader focused on combating racial inequities through strategic design and building brands that create a positive impact in the communities they serve.

An award-winning creative entrepreneur, Candace is an inaugural Estée Lauder x Vital Voices VV Visionaries Fellow and alum of the LBJ Women’s Campaign School. She served as a member of the SnapChat U.S. Creative Council and is a 2020 fellow of the NAACP’s NEXTGENprogram. Candace has been recognized as one of the 4A’s 100 People Who Make Advertising Great, a 4A’s MAIPer to Watch, a Bill Sharp Award Honoree, a 2014 ADCOLOR FUTURE and recipient of ADCOLOR’s Unsung Hero Award. She’s a part of the 3% Movement’s Accelerator’s inaugural class and a 2020 winner of the Create & Cultivate Small Business Pitch Competition.

Candace champions diversity and inclusion through her current work as the Vice President of the American Advertising Federation’s Mosaic Center, and in the past as the Chair of the AAF’s Mosaic NextGen Leadership Council, and the Co-Chair of the ADCOLOR Advisory Board. She’s also infused DEI in advertising curricula as an adjunct professor and lecturer for several universities and portfolio schools. She founded Tabernacle in 2019 – a branding and design consultancy where she’s guided agencies and brands in building and maintaining a community-centric ethos and equity-first approach in their brand’s DNA.

A native Texan with a rich Louisiana Creole heritage, you’ll often find her exploring her roots through art and the lens of food, dreaming up a new dish or putting a spin on a classic.