our team
WE HAVE A PASSION
To share our knowledge with the up and coming models of the world
Raven West
FOUNDER & OWNER
Raven West is the founder and owner of Top Model Boot Camp. She has been in the modeling industry for over 20 years. She has worked with Sports and Lifestyle Unlimited and is now currently with Muse Models.
Throughout Ravens modeling career, she has been in several editorials, commercial ads, worked as a promo model, been in music videos and has walked in many of the top fashion shows throughout the pacific northwest. She has worked with Seattle Fashion Week, Vancouver Fashion Week, Metropolitan Fashion Week and FashioNXT to name a few.
Raven has worked with top world-renowned photographers such as Art Wolf and Matthew Jordan Smith from Americas Next Top Model. She also trained with Yohanna House from Americas Next Top Model.
Raven has a passion for working with the youth in addition to working with the arts. She has taught in both Tacoma and the Bethel school district for several years. She opened and co owned a dance studio for seven years while also coaching runway and photo posing for a few different talent agencies.
Raven is still an active model, educator and works with Metropolitan fashion Week, helps with FashioNXT and currently serves as the runway coordinator for Fashion District NW.
Raven enjoys working with and helping models grow in the industry. It is her hope to motivate, inspire and cultivate others passions in the modeling industry.
Michelle Wise
Camp Manager
Michelle Wise has been in the modeling industry for 18 years and has experience in runway, catalog, editorial and TV commercial work. She has been signed with agencies in Seattle, California, Thailand, and Singapore. Michelle spent a year modeling full-time in southeast Asia where she worked with Nivea, Lenovo, Fashion Destination on Tour, Kuron, Zalora and many more clients. Being involved in hundreds of fashion shows has brought her to work in Backstage Management as well as model coaching. Along with modeling, she currently works as the Backstage Manager for Fashion District NW events.
Brett Renville
Videographer
Brett Renville is a documentary and commercial Cinematographer and Director, based in Seattle, WA. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Brett developed a love for the natural world, and in his work, transferring the essence of a subject – be it human, of the animal variety, the environment, or a simple moment in time – is Brett’s passion and craft; drawing meaningful stories into focus through the lens of the camera. Having traveled around the globe, shooting various projects for NGOs in locales including Haiti, Rwanda, and Mexico, Brett has developed a broad scope of the world and the life that inhabits it, which translates into the subtle and intimate beauty of his art. Brett graduated from the Seattle Film Institute in 2006 and his work has appeared on National Geographic, The Discovery Channel, CNN, A&E, ESPN, NBC, MLB Network, and CBS Sports, and has premiered in numerous major film festivals. He is the resident Creative Director for Boost Creative! and Sustainable Media Group, and has worked with agencies such as Society, GreenRubino, Birdhouse Creative, Williams Helde, and Stanton & Everybody. He fancies himself a pretty fair chef and would never turn down a good Michelada – that would be rude, as well as hubris.
Bryce Rail
Photoshoot Coordinator
Bryce Rail has just over 3 years of experience in the modeling industry. Currently he runs his own personal styling business part time along with being a group fitness instructor part time. Bryce has been seen on the runway at shows such as metropolitan fashion week, African fashion week, and Bellevue fashion week. Through his modeling experience he has grown a passion for working as a Runway coach and runway consultant for such shows as African fashion week, North American African Fashion Week, multiple beauty pageants, and Model showcases. Bryce has a passion for helping others see there own potential as a model and realize there’s a place for everyone in this industry.
Kate Mensah
Fitness team
Kate Mensah is the owner of Mensahna where is offer services as a fitness coach and personal trainer to her clients. She is a certified personal trainer through ISSA, certified boxing and kickboxing coach as well as a Yoga Teacher Certificate, coach nutritionist, youth personal trainer, and indoor cycling trainer. She can be found at Lifetime, Bellevue, Bala yoga studio, Solar You in Kirkland, and Grinning Yogi in Seattle. She is recently teaching yoga to kids and teachers at LWHS. Kate workout foundation : healthy mind in a healthy body; you need to have a good mental balance to achieve your fitness goals.
Kate is also a fashion designer for almost 10 years for her own brand KateSMensah. As well as a fashion styling and model with Heffner Management. We can find Kate’s fashion work at 425 magazine, Seattle Magazine, Bellevue lifestyle and Kirkland lifestyle magazine, Kate Sommerville, REI, and Adidas to name a few. She lives her passions (body fitness and fashion) every day and joined them together to empower women. Kate believes that the two disciplines represent the yin and the yang of our behavior: intensity, aggressiveness, but also kindness and softness.
Osheea Davis
Staff
Osheea Davis is our week long Culinary Chef. Graduating from South Seattle Community College with a degree in Desserts and Specialty Baking she creates a full week long menu that caters to a healthy lifestyle with flare creating space for those that are vegan and gluten free. She has been in the modeling industry for many years and has been featured in multiple publications along with runways shows such as Metropolitan Fashion Week, Couture & Cars, Fashion in Flight, FashioNXT, and Ebony Fashion Week. She takes pride in what she does and loves helping shape the industry one Model at a time! Currently she is working on opening a Vegan Coffee shop named Café Meriah and she brings all the fun in flavor form!
Chris Rivera
photographer
Chris Rivera, a photographer and model with 12 years of experience, is based in the greater Portland area. Having created an extensive portfolio of fine-art, Chris developed a love for art and fashion through creating self-portraits and surrealistic work. In the past 3 years, Chris has pursued more modeling endeavors that include: various runway opportunities throughout the west coast (Dan McLean, Gustavo Apiti, Rik Villa, Alejandro & Santiago), live figure modeling for the Pacific Northwest College of Art and Lewis & Clark College, and commercial work for local and national brands. As an artist, Chris enjoys bringing out one’s inner artistry—whether it’s being the subject or capturing the moment.
Lenisa Ann
Staff
Kimberlee Ruh aka “Mama Ruh” has been actively involved in the Fashion/Modeling industry for about 7 years. Both Kimberlee and her daughter Sofia are signed with HEFFNER Management in Seattle, WA. She has been with HEFFNER for three years doing print work and commercials. Some of my Ad campaigns and jobs have been with Starbucks, T-Mobile, Mutual of Omaha, Oofas, Pierce Transit and several Hospital Systems throughout the States.
She has worked with various fashion organizations like Fashion District NW and Fashion for Conservation. Outside of the fashion /modeling industry, She has been an RN for over 30 years, currently working at UW/Harborview and Mult-iCare Health Systems with the Trauma Service and Transfer Centers. She manages over 20 facilities across the state of Washington. In her spare time, she has also been a Cheerleading Coach for Youth Rec, Jr. High and High School Cheer Teams. She is currently coaches at a High School in Federal Way.
