Since she was young, Malu has been passionate about art making, history, and discourse. She attended the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, AL for her high school education, and continued on to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her BFA with honors in 2018. Her own multidisciplinary practice includes illustration, video, and 3D modeling and animation. Since graduating, Malu has worked in fine art framing in Chicago, Portland (OR), Boston, and Austin, gaining experience in commercial framing as well as archival and historically informed framing.