Mikki is a US-trained Creative professional in retail branding and interior architecture design.  Mikki practiced in LA, NY, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Tokyo with diverse international creative experience and insights.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles, and Master of Interior Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) specialising in Architecture Adaptive Reuse and User-centric design.
 
With over 20 years experience directing creative projects in Branding and Retail Design, critical thinking, Design-thinking and user-experience remain key principles in her practices.  Mikki worked with global brands and Fortune 500 companies including Nike, Proctor & Gamble, Nokia and Bank of America. She also helped global brands build and enhance design capacity and provided Design Management coaching. 

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Mikki was invited to speak at art and design universities in the US, sharing with next generation creative leaders on Design Management and Driving Social Impact through Creativity. She also enjoys attending design critiques, discussing works of young designers. In addition, she is actively consulting for global brands, assisting corporations to streamline design process and build design management capacity. 

Arts and crafts is her life-long passion where she always finds time to support and participate.  She has been a novice and an advocate in Japanese ceramics and kintsugi since her relocation to Tokyo.

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While in Tokyo, she gained insights from extensive travel throughout the country and interactions with various Japanese artisans, inspired the launch of a social innovation enterprise named Taketombo Corporation with the goal of driving social impact through creativity.

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In 2020, Goenne.com was launched in effort to tell artisans stories and prompt new interests in artisanal utilitarian objects through product creation and promotion. 

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