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{{Short description|American interior designer and television personality}}
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== Early life ==
Kia Steave-Dickerson was born and raised in [[Philadelphia|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].<ref name="Source1">{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/person/kia-steave-dickerson?filter-options=tv|title=Biography|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180111151303/http://www.metacritic.com/person/kia-steave-dickerson?filter-options=tv|archive-date=January 11, 2018|
== Career ==
=== {{anchor|1993–2002: K.I.A. Enterprises, Inc. and work in entertainment}}1993–2002: K.I.A. Enterprises and work in entertainment ===
Steave-Dickerson's early designs focused on window decorations and fabrics.<ref name="Source1" /> After graduating from college, she worked in [[retail]] for several years (including at Maen Line Fabrics). After her father's death, Steave-Dickerson used her inheritance to found the design company K.I.A. Enterprises (also known as K.I.A. Design and Construction and K.I.A. Design & Construction Enterprises).<ref name="SourceHappy" /><ref name="Source2">{{cite web|url=http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/trading-spaces-cast-128925/photos/kia-trading-spaces-242956|title=See What the Cast of 'Trading Spaces' Is up to Today!|last=White|first=Tiffany|date=March 30, 2017|work=[[In Touch Weekly]]|
She began her career as a set designer and property master in 1993,<ref name="SourceLinkProfile">{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/kia-steave-dickerson-37586917/|title=Kia Steave-Dickerson|publisher=[[LinkedIn]]|
=== 2002–05: ''Trading Spaces'' ===
In 2002, Steave-Dickerson first appeared on the American [[reality television]] series ''[[Trading Spaces]]'' as an interior designer;<ref name="Source2" /> she was added to the program around the same time as fellow designer Edward Walker.<ref name="Source3">{{cite web|url=http://www.today.com/id/3130945/ns/today-today_entertainment/t/can-trading-spaces-redesign-itself/#.WeLoJhNSxE4|title=Can
Steave-Dickerson's appearances on ''Trading Spaces'' were criticized.<ref name="Source3" /><ref name="news1">{{cite news|title=Ty Dishes 'Trading Spaces' Designers|last=O'Hare|first=Kate|date=May 22, 2003|publisher=[[Screener (website)|Screener]]}}</ref> Kim Reed of [[Today (U.S. TV program)|''Today'']] disliked her work on the series, saying that a bedroom decorated with [[AstroTurf]] and artificial foliage resembled a graveyard. Reed called Steave-Dickerson "another homeowner nightmare" similar to two of the show's other designers ([[Douglas Wilson (interior designer)|Douglas Wilson]] and [[Hildi Santo-Tomas]]), and encouraged its producers to remove her from the series.<ref name="Source3" /> [[Carpentry|Carpenter]] [[Ty Pennington]] did not give an opinion of the designer when he was asked about the show's cast.<ref name="news1" />
=== {{anchor|2005–present: Post-''Trading Spaces'' and continued career as property master}}2005–present: Continued career as property master ===
After ''Trading Spaces'', Steave-Dickerson hosted the short-lived American reality television series ''Renovate My Place''.<ref name="Source2" /> Airing from 2005 to 2006, it focused on helping African-American homeowners with renovations.<ref name="Source5">{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/renovate-my-place/432833/|title=Renovate My Place|work=[[TV Guide]]|
In 2007, she gave birth to a son and took a seven-year hiatus from her career; although she was approached to help with the props for ''[[30 Rock]]'', she refused the offer to raise her child.<ref name="Source4" /> On October 8, 2009, Steave-Dickerson received the [[NBMBAA]]-[[Wells Fargo]] Entrepreneur Excellence Award. As part of the award, K.I.A. Design and Construction Enterprises was given [[United States dollar|$]]5,000.<ref name="Source6" /> Steave-Dickerson returned to work on the 2015 film [[Creed (film)|''Creed'']], and was an assistant property master for the third season of ''[[Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt]]''.<ref name="Source4">{{cite web|url=http://www.eonline.com/news/839746/trading-spaces-cast-where-are-they-now|title=Trading Spaces Cast: Where Are They Now?|last1=Heller|first1=Corinne|last2=Mortello|first2=Alessandra|date=March 29, 2017|work=[[E! Online]]|
In addition to her career as a property master and designer, she has established [[transitional housing]] to help people with drug and alcohol addiction and victims of domestic abuse.<ref name="Source6" /> Steave-Dickerson founded the West Philadelphia-based WEK House in 1997.<ref name="SourceHappy" />
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==External links==
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* [https://www.instagram.com/kiathedesigner/ Official Instagram account]
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