Katelyn Liao is currently a BFA Illustration student at the School of Visual Arts based in New York City and part of the school’s Honors Program. She has a passion for visual storytelling and enjoys using mediums ranging from oil paint, watercolor, colored pencil, to digital softwares such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Procreate. In her free time she enjoys going to the parks and cafes in the city to sketch and people watch and imagine their lives. Thus, her favorite word is “sonder” — the realization that everyone has a life as complex as our own. She also loves documenting snippets of her life through videos, as well as baking and annoying her cat.