I started making jewelry on my kitchen counter as something to do with my hands after long days at work. Somewhere along the way, the things I was putting on in the morning started to feel like mine for the first time, not an algorithm’s guess at what I’d like.

It made me realize how much of how we show up in the world, what we wear, what we buy, what we put our name on, gets shaped for us instead of by us.

by.YSC is the passion project that grew out of that, and my way of putting meaning back into it. Expression isn’t only personal, it points to what we care about beyond ourselves. So at the end of each year, the profits go toward that.

Where 2026’s profits go

For 2026, profits will go to groups protecting voting rights and building political power in Black and brown communities, especially after the ruling in Louisiana v. Callais.

The decision gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the provision that for sixty years protected against racial discrimination in voting, and made it far harder to challenge district maps drawn to weaken their vote.

Every piece here carries something of what I believe in, and I hope it carries something of what you believe in too. I’d love to help make a piece that’s uniquely yours.