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Detroit, Mi, Us

Detroit, Michigan, United States

• Design logos and brand identities for cause-based organizations• Design websites and mobile apps to meet user needs• Lead collaboration between sub-contractors and other designers

Michigan, United States

• Develop strategic digital and print marketing campaigns for mission-driven organizations.• Full-service graphic designer for print and digital materials. Design projects have includedlogos, magazines, reports, social graphics, email graphics, apparel, signage, website layouts,posters, brochures, cards, print ads, digital ads, infographics, and MS Office templates.• Photograph over 60 sessions per year, including weddings, events, portraits, and editorial.

Virtual Repetitions is the first fully-customized, virtual playbook in sports that turns paper plays into 3D, immersive video games for youth, college, and NBA teams. I lead UI/UX design for Vreps' marketing site, web, app, and mobile app, as well as creating print collateral, digital assets, and copy. In 2018, I initiated a company re-brand and website and app overhaul in collaboration with the team.

• Created desktop UI designs for Praktio's learner-facing web app. Worked with engineers to implement responsive designs.• Led UX and UI design process from wireframes to high-fidelity mockups for Praktio's admin-facing LMS web app.• Redesigned Praktio's Shopify marketing site UI. • Created Praktio's first Design System for flexible use across all UI designs.• Drove marketing campaigns across email, LinkedIn, and printed collateral in support of sales goals.• Created hand-drawn character illustrations and other vignettes to pair with Praktio's learner-facing lesson content.

Ann Arbor, Mi

• Managed $120K+ in consumer marketing campaigns annually for Double Up Food Bucksprograms in Michigan, Texas, Alabama, New Hampshire, and New Jersey, working with stateprogram leads to craft tailored digital and print campaigns driving program use. Originaldesign of all materials, including in-store signage, community engagement materials, and ads.• Developed and drove strategy around all graphic design materials and photography foroverarching Fair Food Network brand, as well as three program sub-brands.• Managed associated external vendor relationships, including local printers in six states.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Ann Arbor, Mi

• Directed program to distribute $40,000 in grants for sustainability-related campus projects. Mentored applicants through the grant writing process and oversaw grant evaluation and grantee selection.

Ann Arbor, Mi

• Photographed campus events and professional head shots for faculty and students.• Graphic design contributor for School for Environment & Sustainability's Stewards Alumni Magazine.• Developed digital and print designs marketing the school’s current student and alumnievents, including posters, email graphics, and signage.

Food Innovation Center At The Bronson Healthy Living Campus

• Developed a sustainability indicator toolkit for KVCC to use when selecting growers for its new Food Innovation Center, a processing and distribution hub for local farmers and teaching center for Sustainable Food Production students. • Independently developed a three-phase strategic plan for scaling up the food hub's operations, presenting it to the Bronson Healthy Living Campus Staff, KVCC's President and Cabinet, and community stakeholders. • Assisted with curriculum development and hiring for KVCC’s Sustainable Food Production and Sustainable Brewing majors.

Center For Sustainable Systems

• Researched the environmental trade-offs between food waste and food packaging from a life cycle assessment perspective by calculating where the reduced environmental burdens from food waste reductions outweigh the impacts of packaging production and disposal.• Worked with local grocers to investigate waste rates and waste reduction measures.

School Of Natural Resources & Environment Office Of Academic Programs

• Collaborated between the Office of Communications and Office of Academic Programs to design and publish print marketing materials and manage website content. • Planned the School of Natural Resource's inaugural Preview Day for prospective students by designing and coordinating the day's events, creating and distributing print and media marketing, and running the event.

Kalamazoo, Michigan

• Strategized events and programming through the Office of Student Involvement, developing tailored advertising plans to increase student attendance. • Led graphic design and content development for all social media channels and print advertising.

Kalamazoo College

• Collaborated with administrators to plan and execute Kalamazoo College’s nationally ranked First-Year Experience program• Took on full responsibility for training the orientation leaders and planning orientation week events• Created documents, copy-edited materials, and designed advertisements for distribution to first years• Required a high level of organization, enthusiasm, and administrative responsibility.

Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Mi

• Managed marketing, public relations, website design, and social media for the Student Commission• Led weekly committee meetings of 5-8 people to plan outreach activities for the Commission• Overhauled the webpage to include new staff listing format and Twitter feed• Led a committee of ten students to plan a “Food for Thought” event to gather student feedback, attracting a total attendance of 178 people—twice more than had ever attended an event put on by the commission.

Chicago, Il

• Worked side-by-side with the company’s CEO to create business and marketing strategies that promoted the company’s new reality TV series• Created a press kit for the company and attended important business deal meetings• Learned to work well under pressure, come up with creative solutions, and create long-term business plans

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

• Led and guided tours for prospective students to Kalamazoo College• Utilized strong communication and interpersonal skills when interacting with the potential students

Canada

• Selected by Kalamazoo College to lead a two-week backpacking and canoeing orientation trip through Algonquin Provincial Park in Canada for incoming freshmen• Certified as a Wilderness First Responder

Lansing, Michigan Area

• Met with representatives, researched information on their districts, and assigned them to committee meetings • Gained knowledge and experience in government, public policy, and computers

Master Of Science (M.S.), Sustainable Systems

Activities and Societies: Student Sustainability Initiative Board Member, Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund Chair Member, SNRE Careers.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics; Public Policy & Urban Affairs, Environmental Studies, 3.818 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, Student Commission Secretary of Communications, Office.

Study Abroad, Thai Language, Culture, And Ecology

• Six-month study abroad program in Chiang Mai, Thailand • Included courses on Thai language, agroecology, political ecology.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Class president, National Honor Society president, first chair oboe in symphonic band, drum major for marching.