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• Driving impact through design by conducting generative and evaluative human-centered design research across a wide range of projects for healthcare, education, non-profit clients.
• Designing and facilitating co-creation processes, including workshops and focus groups with communities
• Creating systems prototypes that represent complex ideas, allowing stakeholders to generate tactical and transformational ideas for change on a systems scale
• Visualizing the complexity of systems through the development of service design and data visualization tools like ecosystem maps, journey maps, affinity diagramming.
• Leading summer internship programs by mentoring emerging designers in the field of social impact.
• Strengthening business development efforts through proposal and grant writing, and building project case studies.

Jaipur Area, India

• Facilitated over fifteen creativity and design thinking workshops for different departments and teams reaching over a hundred professionals working with 40,000 artisans
• Conducted contextual research on the organization’s relationship and cultural competence with the rug weaving cluster of Aspura
• Analyzed and visualized the impact of sustainability initiatives conducted by the brand like the Manchahaa Program and Bunkar Sakhi role implementation
• Designed curriculum and course content (workbook, presentations, facilitator & discussion guides) for a design literacy program aimed at helping artisans build and communicate their design practice to a global audience
• Conducted design literacy workshops for the artisans at the Innovation Lab in Aaspura

Savannah, Georgia, United States

• Assisted the professor in the development of the core curriculum for an undergraduate level class on the Principles of Sustainable Materials
• Taught classes on ‘Designing for Circularity’ and ‘Design Ethics’

Tybee Island, Georgia, United States

• Conducted design research, analysis, and strategy planning in a multi-disciplinary team of eleven designers
• Developed concepts for an interactive exhibit that teaches biomimicry, currently being constructed at the Tybee Island Marine Science Center

Savannah, Georgia, United States

• Community outreach with the Hudson Hill Community
• Developed a tool to help five stakeholder groups align themselves and address complex community problems through collaborative problem solving

Bengaluru Area, India

Mfa, Design For Sustainability

Thesis titled, “Creating Capabilities through Cultural Competence in the Craft Clusters of India”

B. Des, Accessory Design