About
I'm a designer at news startup Semafor, with previous experience in product design at the New York Times. My current work focuses on the intersection of brand and product design.
Work Experience
• Lead designer for Semafor's live journalism events and overseeing the visual design and production of collateral across physical and digital formats.
• Evolving Semafor's brand design and ensuring a consistent visual language across storytelling formats, data visualizations, web, illustrations, animations and high-level decks. Designed Semafor's first brand guidelines.
• Collaborating closely with the newsroom, product, and revenue teams, actively engaging in design discourse and contributing to the ongoing development of Semafor's design culture.
• Designed and shipped a package filter system for the New York Times homepage to promote exploration and increase the accessibility of stories across the Wellness, Culture, and Cooking sections.
• Enhanced Home's design system by developing a new organizational structure in Figma and created documentation and usage guidelines for layouts and responsive components used on the homepage.
• Led a small team of designers, engineers and data scientists in the exploration of an uplifting news section for the homepage, presented to an audience of 70+ NYT employees during Maker Week.
Awards
Best in UX/UI Category
Writing
Volunteering
As a selected member of the 2022 Designer Cohort I collaborated with other faculty, student and campus staff leaders across the US to design accessible voting resources to students based on their major, as well as useful information for international students.
Education
Grade: 4.0
Awards: MICA Leadership Award - Design For Change
Graduated with Honors