Expanding palates and perspectives for social good.
Hattie Wynn and Anna Noble – my grandmother and great-aunt – believed in nurturing socially intelligent children with a healthy regard for self.
Grandma Hattie used Pittsburgh’s food and tourism industry as a tool for embodied learning, showing me that the foundation of hospitality is built on empathy, belonging, and intentional worldbuilding. As a nursing director and with a passion for giving back that lasted well into her 90s, Aunt Anne demonstrated care and purposeful communication as tactics for building trusting relationships.
Wynn & Noble is an extension of their legacies, and the values I’ve inherited are the foundation of everything that follows.
Welcome to my corner of the internet!
I’m Quayla – an independent consultant specializing in inclusive placemaking and social impact. I partner with destination management organizations (DMOs) and purpose-driven food and culture organizations to build pathways to emerging audiences.
My practice is grounded in embodied knowledge that comes from years of traveling, eating, and moving through the world, and refined through over a decade of experience leading engagement initiatives that turn understanding into strategy.
It’s through this context that I learned the most overlooked aspect of design is the gap between our current location and the desired destination. That gap is where communication breaks down, competing goals take hold, and the audiences we most want to reach get lost.
Through intersectional wayfinding and inclusive programmatic strategy, I help organizations examine the distance and build pathways to belonging and impact.
In our careers, we’re often asked to ignore the full range of our personhood, putting our lives and our work at odds.
As an acclaimed strategist, I’ve come to realize that my career wins, both in-house and independently, are deeply rooted in my ability to find harmony between the two.
Wynn & Noble is an outward expression of that harmony: a place where cultural wealth, a curious spirit, learned capabilities, and a deep appetite for community-informed learning shape an interdisciplinary approach to every problem I touch.
This is what it looks like in practice:
Wynn & Noble is an ecosystem where strategy and creative leadership converge.
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Advisory and capacity-building services for DMOs and purpose-driven food and culture organizations ready to close the gap between their values and their impact. I work with organizations that have the vision, the funding, and an appetite for meaningful change.
Related Case Studies: Safety & Belonging at the Sundance Film Festival and Colorado’s Accessible Travel Program
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Freelance writing and content development for publications, brands, and organizations looking for narratives at the intersection of food, travel, and culture.
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Immersive food and travel-based programming that builds community, drives engagement, and creates the kind of personal and collective impact that outlasts the experience itself.
Related Case Study: Make Inclusion Delicious
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Bringing the same intersectional lens to every room I enter on URL and IRL. If you’re looking for a speaker, judge, facilitator, or creative collaborator, let's talk!
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