Contact me for any inquiries and/or to get my PDF portfolio! Check out my Resume, LinkedIn (where you can find links to publications I’ve been involved in), and Instagram.

I’m currently a freelance designer based in New York City.

In the past, I’ve worked in graphic design, exhibition design, communications, and journalism at organizations including IDEO, Center for Urban Pedagogy, Doctors Without Borders, MGMT Design, Siegel + Gale, The American Museum of Natural History, the Santa Fe New Mexican Newspaper, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

With support from the Maharam Fellowship, I spent the summer of 2019 working with Volunteers in Medicine and the New York Health Department to study and support health service practices in the U.S. as a response to medical coverage issues and community health needs.

I aim to utilize my communications skillset to make complicated subject matter clear and accessible. I am passionate about using graphic design and systems-thinking approaches to communicate complexities and to help people access and understand important services.

I received a BFA with honors from Rhode Island School of Design in Graphic Design with a concentration in Scientific Inquiry. I also recieved my Masters in Public Health from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public health with a certificate in Infectious Disease Epidemiology and a focus on health communications.

Publications (About Me):

Publishing the Present: COVID-19 Action & Informative Design Series
—Wendy’s Subway (NYC), University of Art + Design, 2020

A Growing List of Resources for the Movement for Black Lives
— AIGA Eye on Design, 2020

Digi Postcards Shout Out
— AIGA Eye on Design, 2020

Resource Guide: Talking About Race
—WSOC-TV (NC News Station), 2020
—Pandemic Guide to protesting also published by Birdy Zine

“Joyous Obsession with Chairs“
— XYZ Magazine, 2019

The Dorner Prize: Draft Catalog
— XYZ Magazine, 2019

—IDEO Blog (illustrations for posts), 2019

“Spoonflower Gives Back” (re: textile production grant)
—Spoonflower, 2019

“Eight Logos for Trump’s Space Force, From Milton Glaser and More: We asked leading designers to brand the proposed agency”
— Bloomberg Businessweek (for MGMT. Design), 2018

“With RISD Food Lab, An Extracurricular Serving Food Design”
— Mold Magazine, 2018

Food Design Panel
— DesignxRI, 2018

Catalogue 5: STEAM
—STEAM, 2016

The Internet is For Digital Citizenship
—STEAM Stories, 2016

Rare Earth Exhibition
—Pasatiempo, 2013

Publications (By Me):

“On Immunity: Community Care and Historic Responses”
— A Fountain, 2020

“History of HIV/AIDS and Visual Culture”
— Maharam Fellows Blog, 2019

“Righting Wikipedia: Meet the People Working to Diversify Online History”
— Now Here This: Dreamland, 2018

“Communicating Through Taste and Text”
— The College Hill Independent, at Brown University, 2018

“Microbe Culture: A Conversation with Sandor Katz“
— The College Hill Independent, at Brown University, 2016

“The Grass Isn't Greener”
— The College Hill Independent, at Brown University, 2016

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