Vision Is More Than Eyesight.

I began losing my vision at a young age and now live and compete as a blind athlete in the T11 Para athletics classification. When I race, I sprint alongside a guide runner, connected by a tether and an unreasonable amount of trust. Vision or not, speed is speed—and I've been fortunate to represent Canada at the Parapan American Games, World Para Athletics Championships, and Commonwealth Games, while holding Canadian records in the sprints. In 2025, I ran a personal best of 11.14 seconds in the T11 100 metres. It still feels fake. The clock, unfortunately, has receipts.

Off the track, creativity is where I live. I perform as GQSoundz, DJing Afrobeats, Hip Hop, R&B, Reggae, Dancehall, Soca, and whatever else makes the room move. Teaching myself music production as a blind artist meant learning every button, shortcut, and sound by feel and memory. No, I did not "just guess." I actually learned the tools. That process shaped how I make music—and how little patience I have for technology that only works if you can see it.

By day, I work in digital accessibility, helping organizations build websites and software that people with disabilities can actually use. I'm an accessibility professional and web developer with a computer engineering background from Seneca College, and I genuinely believe good design should never leave people behind. If a website isn't accessible, it's unfinished. Plain and simple. Also slightly embarrassing, but that's between you and your backlog.

Somewhere between DJ sets, sprinting, and building accessible software, I picked up cybersecurity as a hobby. It keeps my problem-solving sharp and my curiosity well fed. Yes, I enjoy breaking things. No, it's not for the aesthetic. I break them to understand how to fix them—which, inconveniently, makes me very good at my actual job.

At the core of everything I do is the same mindset: vision is more than eyesight. Limitations are often just invitations to approach things differently—sometimes faster, sometimes smarter, and occasionally with better music playing in the background. I recommend the last option.

Whether I'm racing on the world stage, building accessible tech, DJing, or helping people navigate their own paths, I'm driven by a simple idea: inclusion, creativity, and performance do not have to live in separate lanes. I certainly don't.

If you've read this far, welcome. You've officially outlasted most people's attention span and at least one automated accessibility scan. And no, I still don't know why people think blind means boring. I medal. I mix. I break websites professionally. Boring would be a vacation—and I have not booked one.