Entrepreneur. Designer. Advocate.

I'm a Nashville-based entrepreneur, designer and advocate. I've spent much of my career building things: businesses, brands, spaces and experiences. More recently, I've been using my voice to help create room for conversations that are much harder to build.

I co-founded Poppy & Peep Chocolate with my dad, Mark, turning a shared childhood love of candy shops into a Nashville micro-chocolate factory known for playful, highly designed confections. Through Evane Stoner Interiors, I create experience-driven hospitality and commercial spaces, with work ranging from immersive stays to custom environments behind some of the world's largest touring productions. My work and businesses have been recognized by outlets including Southern Living, Condé Nast Traveler, Hello Sunshine, CBS's The Price Is Right and the Nashville Business Journal.

But one of the most important parts of my work today comes from something I spent years learning how to talk about. I am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Speaking publicly about that experience has become an extension of everything else I create: an opportunity to make something difficult visible, to support the organizations doing this work every day and to remind adults that protecting children requires us to be willing to have uncomfortable conversations.