It is my goal to render science into clarity for universal understanding. To this end, I illustrate, animate, and design. I currently reside in Madison, Wisconsin. I am available for hourly work, projects, and consultancy. In my spare time, I am pursuing animation, data visualization, and web development. To see more of my work please view my portfolio at www.brookeweiland.com/Portfolio2016. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram @baweiland23.

DesignLab offers one-on-one consultation for students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Additionally, DesignLab consultants teach courses and provide assignment-guides for digital media and visual communication studies at the univserity.

I serve in a volunteer position as President of the Wisconsin Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology (WSCB). Over the course of my involvement and under my facilitation (with the help of an incredible Board), WSCB has hosted two major panel events, collaborated with Partners for numerous conservation activities, developed and sustained a monthly social called Conservation on Tap, developed social media, web and general marketing strategies, wrote and released its first policy statement from a newly-founded and dedicated Policy Committee.WSCB is continually growing, changing, and adapting to the social-political environment. I've enjoyed the opportunity and challenge of leveraging the expertise of such diverse and dedicated chapter members of SCB-North America.

I've created an education (within the Life Sciences Communication department) focused on visual science communication. I focus on strategic communication and marketing, as well as the psychology of design and digital media studies. I am a professional track Masters student - meaning I am concurrently self-employed at Brooke Weiland Illustration, LLC. My courses have ranged from "History of Science" to "Internet and Democracy" to "Principles and Practice of Strategic Communication" to "Case Studies of Communication in Technology". My enrollment at UW-Madison as a graduate student has allowed me to pursue the incredibly niche and interdisciplinary field of visual science communication.

Doyenne is a non-profit for female entrepreneurship. I interviewed with the co-founder, Heather Wentler, the day after the 2016 Trump election and worked on the Communications Committee for seven months. As the Marketing Intern at Doyenne, I helped develop social media strategies on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, proofed and delivered press releases, organized internal communications (including implementing and teaching other users Asana), developed marketing content for events (copy and design for print and web platforms), and drew new members through word-of-mouth marketing. I also assisted with event organization and media coverage. It was a pleasure to work with the Doyenne Board and Communications Committee members. I would highly recommend Doyenne to any female entrepreneur and hope to find myself in a membership position in the future.

Generated and designed all graphic materials for the North American Conference for Conservation Biology 2016, held in Madison, WI. The logo designed for the conference (below), represents two important species in Wisconsin; the Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis), a conservation victory species, and a wetland grass called Fringed Brome (Bromus ciliatus), a native crane habitat species. The grass seeds are flying off of their stalk as they transform into cranes, symbolizing seeds of information and science given wings by communication, wrapping into the theme of the conference "Communicating Science for Conservation Action". I generated the rest of the conference materials with the crane logo at the root of the conference spirit and branding. My tasks included designing the website banner, save-the-date business cards, prospectus, t-shirt, water bottle, conference signage (22"x28", 28"x44", and meterboards), name tags and event tickets, conference app images, 28 page pocket program, and full 145 page program. I worked for a very talented Steering Committee Chair, Jamie Hogberg, with the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies.

During my six week stay at Canyonlands Research Center I produced three 2'x3' interpretive panels to be displayed at the center. I interacted with affiliated researchers to glean what's important about their studies, distilled their information into illustrations, and designed each panel layout. The three topics included biological soil crust conservation, restoration of grasslands using galleta grass, and riparian restoration with fremont cottonwood trees.

I was hosted as Artist in Residence at Camp Pico Blanco for a month. During this time I sought to inspire an appreciation for the natural world through illustration. I created six watercolor paintings of different environments around the redwood canyon and produced prints of these to be sold at the camp shop. The camp is continuing to use my prints this year.