Karlie Thornton is a multi-disciplinary artist from St. Louis, and is based in Chicago. Karlie finds passion in amplifying and supporting BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities. Through her history of event production with Party Noire, an advertising career as an art director for multicultural audiences and taking a lead in diversity and inclusion industries through ADCOLOR. She began froSkate, a Chicago based skate crew that centers both the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ femme communities by combining her passion for space making, and D&I in underpresnted comunities.