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Washington, DC, US

I create short, concept-forward explainer videos, often combining live-action and animation. Through my design process, I sketch storyboards, compose styleframes, hire voiceover artists, edit footage, and animate scenes. I also mentor our seasonal Video Production Intern, managing expectations and coaching them to create their own video projects.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

- Designed storyboards and animated characters in explainer video on the Paris Agreement's Transparency Framework- Animated teaser and opening slides for Stories to Watch 2021, an annual talk given by CEO Andrew Steer- Storyboarded, designed styleframes, and animated video promoting the Global Forest Review, a platform that summarizes data on tropical tree.

Davis, Californ

- Created lyric video for EDM artist Shybeast’s “Middle of Love” which is featured on House Nation’s Youtube Channel, gaining over 40,000 views- Animated two children's book covers for global book publishing company HarperCollins- Illustrated & designed floater icons, titles, lower thirds, and other GFX on modern show educating millenials about sexuality.

United States

- Developed a novel curriculum for teaching 10-13 year old children basics of Adobe Animate and the 12 principles of animation through Zoom- Assisted students in executing assignments and program troubleshooting.

- Pioneered organization to creating daily & weekly content for Cycle News's online platforms: Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube- Designed animated video with journalist undertaking the issue of Russian minorities in Estonia, involving thorough research of visual assets used in the production, and creating an organized filing/precomposing system for future.

UC Davis

- Illustrated weekly reports for website and social media- Scheduled meeting times for social media team- Trained under News Director to become Lead Creative Intern

Davis

- Collaborate with team of 4 volunteer animators to brainstorm, storyboard, and animate explainer videos for clients.- Played several roles in campaign video for Unitrans, the Daviswide bus system: compiled mood board and color scheme, illustrated vehicles and buildings using Illustrator, and animated scenes using expressions, the graph editor, and other.

Culver City, California

- Design motion graphics for social media marketing of EDM musicians across Los Angeles- Turned album covers into motion graphics from Bassnectar for Spotify canvases, who has over a million monthly listeners- Created animated doodles on top of GRiZ's Waves 2019 Tour promotional video, gaining over 3k views on Instagram- Designed GIFs on Instagram for.

Monterey, CA

- Self-learned After Effects to create motion graphics for promotional video explaining research lead by the Human Systems Integration Lab.- Collaborated with team of 6 interns to execute pilot sleep study validating an optimal Psychomotor Vigilance Test (PVT) for use in future studies.- Recruited, briefed participants, and conducted experiment for PVT.

Monterey

- Data entry for a sleep study on 5 Naval ships- Completed literature review on telomeres and sleep