Who is Amethyst?
Motivational speaker, coach, event coordinator, photographer, creative problem solver, skilled artisan, and natural entrepreneur. Founder of Distorted View Portraits, Stargazer Training, and Resin-It Evil Crafts. Amethyst works relentlessly at building something from nothing and is always looking for new ways to create and challenge herself.
She received her first film camera when she was 5 years old, and since then has worked tirelessly on developing and perfecting her skills behind the lens. She specializes in uncovering and capturing the underlying emotions of her subjects. Her goal is to help clients define their legacies through her imagery.
In 2014, Amethyst turned her love for the game of lacrosse into an opportunity to serve her community and help lead the next generation as a youth lacrosse coach. Her goal was to introduce younger girls to the sport and allow them the opportunity to learn, play, and develop their technical skills on the field, and their life skills off the field. She found a way to turn her passion for the game into a piece of her personal legacy by co-founding and developing a local middle school lacrosse league within the Palos Verdes Peninsula School District. With lacrosse being considered a newer west coast sport, her program was the first of its kind to be recognized within the local school districts and surrounding community at the time.
Through her psychologically focused coaching methods, she has helped hundreds of young girls discover self-confidence, build their self-esteem, develop leadership and effective communication skills, develop self-discipline, and learn other core values that remain with them long after their field time with her ends.
For the past decade, Amethyst has worked with various non-profit organizations throughout the South Bay that focus on providing opportunities for youth guidance and mentorship. She currently serves as a founding member of the Youth Leadership Committee in her local church where she acts as an event coordinator and public speaker for both middle and high school youth groups.
Her primary life objective is to help teens and young adults find, learn, and develop strategies that can be used to positively manage stress and provide proper guidance for discovering and pursuing future life pathways. She has a strong desire to work with those severely affected by past traumatic experiences and hopes to aide them in the recovery and rebuilding that comes after leaving such experiences behind. She is motivated and driven to make a difference in the world, one mind at a time.
Amethyst graduated from UCLA in 2023 with a BA in Psychology, minoring in Disability Studies. During her time at UCLA, she interned at the Disability Rights Legal Center, and served as the Undergrad Student Representative on Disability. For her senior project, she wrote, produced, and directed short film, “Passing”; a film about chronic illness and disability in athletes. She also worked alongside the Disabled Students Union and helped in numerous activist and protest efforts calling for reform on the university's policies negativity impacting disabled students. She was also a member and officer for the Women's Lacrosse team.
In the future, she hopes to professionally work for and with trauma victims and become an advocate for at risk teens.