Expand Photo courtesy of Dionna Hayden Dionna Hayden Dionna HaydenBefore Dionna Hayden became a visual designer, children’s book author-illustrator and youth educator, she was a young girl growing up in a multigenerational home in Milwaukee’s “53206 neighborhood,” inheriting creative and altruistic passions from the woman who raised her. Those memories, she explains, helped spark her journey towards launching Lucky Boots in 2014. Under the imprint, less than a year later, she published the first Cookie-Flower Rock Kids book, Moving Day. LEARN MOREPink Elephant Design & BeyondWhile Lucky Boots is rooted in Hayden's personal life, Pink Elephant Design is rooted in the spaces and people that shape Milwaukee. Reporter’s NoteI was first introduced to Dionna Hayden through her artwork, hanging in a gallery at The Center for Black Excellence and Culture in Madison.