A new product studio focusing on social impact

Guiding teams of MHCI students through their 8-month Capstone projects. Co-teaching Programming Usable Interfaces, lecturing on fundamental concepts of usability.

Working with the Department of Veterans Affairs, I led a multidisciplinary team working to drive adoption of Login.gov among Veterans.

Food Rescue Hero is a social enterprise with a technology, logistics and civic engagement model that aims to fight hunger and promote sustainability by preventing perfectly good food from entering the waste stream and directly distributing to organizations and individuals who are experiencing food insecurity. The Food Rescue Hero platform is used by food recovery nonprofits in 12 cities in the US and Canada including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Vancouver.The Food Rescue Hero platform has facilitated the recovery of over 40 million pounds of food from going to waste via technology that mobilizes over 18,000 drivers in 12 cities --food rescue heroes--the largest on-demand volunteer food transport network performing at a 99% service level. Food Rescue Hero's innovative distribution model successfully bridges the last mile to impact food insecurity.By redirecting surplus food about to go to waste, Food Rescue Hero responds to SDG Target 12.3 - to halve per capita food waste by 2030 directly contributing to SDG 2, Zero Hunger. Food waste is one of the major sources of carbon emissions and wastes significant natural resources. By redirecting food from going to landfill, the organization also helps mitigate climate change, responding to SDG 13.Tracking with SDG 2030, the Food Rescue Hero technology platform aims to support food rescue's scale in 100 cities by 2030.Food Rescue Hero has been featured in NPR, Fast Company, The Washington Post, Food & Wine, Bust Magazine, and Civil Eats among others. In 2020, the Food Rescue Hero technology platform won Fast Company's World Changing Ideas award and was named a CES Innovation Honoree. In 2019, it won the Carnegie Science Award for Information Technology.

Voyant helps teams conduct smarter, faster qualitative research. Plan interactive scripts, record interviews, and analyze findings, all in one place. Learn more at: http://www.voyantapp.comMade by Bessemer AllianceMy role includes product management, product marketing, and demand generation.

Product development, research, wireframing, prototyping, testing, user interface design, and information architecture.