After graduating from high school, Cazzie attended Emerson College in Boston, where she studied writing for film and TV. It was at Emerson that she met Elisa Kalani, with whom she later wrote and produced a web series. "She was my college roommate and we were in screenwriting classes together," Cazzie told Complex in April 2017 in reference to her collaborator. "We asked our teachers if we could partner up because we thought it would lessen the homework load. It backfired and they doubled it. Very annoying, but we realised we worked really well together."