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Born in Oak Park, IL Quishyra Hester aka Qui and Shyra was born to Aleitheia Mabry and Reginald Hester. Growing up in Broadview, IL the majority of her life is where she developed a passion for photography at a very young age of 6, and later developed a love for writing by expressing herself inside of journals as a result of being bullied in elementary school, writing personal entries as well as fictional short stories as she grew older. At 12, Moving from Broadview to the west then south side of Chicago was no easy adjustment for the then pre teen, she was faced with new environments of people where the bullying continued because of her curly long hair and a scar she developed on her nose. Her mother, and step father Orga Lee Bailey that raised her, moved her and her older sister Katishia back to their hometown of Broadview where she attended high school with her childhood friends. Bouncing from neighborhood to neighborhood and school to school had its benefits, Quishyra developed relationships with people that are seeming to last a lifetime. Determined to become a successful entrepreneur, her mother invested and purchased a professional Canon DSLR encouraging her to follow her dreams. She teamed up with Michael Sean Jones and launched her company becoming an independent contractor with retail clothing store DTLR. She has had the opportunity to work with numerous successful celebrities like J-Cole, T.I, 2-Chainz, and Future to name a few.
In 2015, she gave birth to her first and only child Lailah Amor Gawrysh who is an model and actress. With her daughters adorable personality, and beautiful smile she decided to get into managing and manage her daughters career in the modeling industry which has been successful. Lailah models for Wards, Crate & Barrel, with most recent client Radio Flyer. Still feeling like she was not living up to her highest potential, she started utilizing every talent she felt our creator gave to her. Quishyra started to design clothes for her daughter under the name "Lailah Amor" brand and writing again, this time not journal entries but screenplays and TV shows with future plans of working with some of Hollywoods best actors and producing her own films through her company, Gawrysh Studios.
Quishyra feels that everyone has a story to tell, and she is determined to get hers heard. With numerous talents, Quishyra is best known for her photography. To some, she is known as the young Gordon Parks, filmmaker, writer, and photographer who was also self taught. Never studying film, photography, or etc doors continue to open for her in the land of entertainment. Quishyra is forever grateful for the people who have helped her on the path to greatness and have plans to continue being of service. She is inspired by the late Walt Disney, Wes Craven and others like Oprah Winfrey, Gabrielle Union and Tyler Perry.
Born to inspire and make a difference in the world, she is hopeful that someday she will work with those who inspire her the most. She continues to move forward with her plan of becoming one of the worlds most influential entrepreneurs, despite the most recent tragedy in her life that she has yet to publicly address.
