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. I also work as a Public Access Design Fellow with the Center for Urban Pedagogy and as a Graphic Design Intern for Doctors Without Borders/MSF People Management Unit.

In the past, I’ve worked in graphic design, exhibition design, communications, and journalism at organizations including IDEO, 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’m currently a MPH candidate at 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

Surface Design: Textile design, poster design, and textural fun

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