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East Bay, California

Collaborator with a variety of researchers and global nonprofits focused on health, education, and human rights. Mapping, directing, and resourcing humane and dignifying cultural narratives that center local communities. Conducting creative ideation sessions, focus groups, and interviews. Clients include: Design for America, 826 Valencia, University of San Francisco, Women in Transition.Photographing on behalf of biomedical research in the highlands of Peru and anthropologists in Paris, as well as the Bay Area's most fascinating nonprofits. Making human-centric visuals that breathe new life into communications efforts for a variety of causes.

San Francisco Bay Area

Selecting fellows from cohort applicants for climate-focused arts fellowship; planning and hosting environmentally friendly gallery pop ups and fellowship art shows; developing resources and curriculum; co-leading thematic discussions and curriculum engagement. Brainstorming and visual thinking.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Fat Forward is a community that resources travelers of size and aggregates helpful information about traveling while fat. The community operates within the radical understanding that it's possible to love the body you are in, and that we're all in this together.

San Francisco, Ca

Photographer for USF Magazine and USF Lawyer (in print circ. 100k; online circ. 80k). Cultivated university’s visual voice by developing visual dialects for specific social media channels; developed in-house forum for exchange of media skills, techniques, and approaches to visual storytelling; trained in-house photojournalists and multimedia interns; interviewed local change makers, faculty, and donors; edited content for scripts and copy.Worked in collaboration with videography teams, ideated with social media, mentored photographic interns, and presented workshops to shape visual storytelling university wide.Created photo narrative and editorial imagery that visually communicates the work of the University of San Francisco's passionate array of faculty and students. Visual narrative collaborations include: astronomical research, student advocacy, urban garden harvests, poetry readings, and USF's many efforts to 'Change the World from Here.' Cultivated photographic styles to be used university-wide, photographing and editing to develop various dialects for specific media channels, including developing a look and template for Instagram Stories. Collaborated with the multimedia team to streamline processes and templates aiding in the development of a holistic Multimedia workflow that extends USF’s standards of positivity, creativity, and collaboration, resulting in the production of compelling multimedia artifacts.Created a forum for the regular exchange of new media skills, techniques, and approaches to visual storytelling.Extended photographic training to journalists and multimedia interns.

Chicago

Conducted ethnographic field research focusing on audience attributes and tastes. Led cross-cultural, foreign-language contextualization teams for curriculum adaptation in multiple other languages. Developed Spanish-language Aventuras, a four-year monthly publication for young readers (250,000 circulation), published in Spanish and adopted by Compassion International and World Vision.Commissioned artwork from multiple international illustrators. Acquired compelling content for publications based on their distinct editorial grids. Served as a liaison between authors and departments (design, marketing, sales, production) to facilitate timely publication. Created concepts and spatial layouts for narrative-relevant puzzles, games, and activities.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Facilitated collaboration between illustrators, graphic designers, photographers, and translators generating monthly publishing project for audiences of beginning readers in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.Authored books and activity pieces for young readers.Managed editorial projects from conception, through acquisition to inventory.Nurtured project visions within a specific publishing mandate.Managed publishing project schedules and budgets. Provided aesthetic guidelines, support, and critique to members of creative team.

Manarola, Cinque Terre, Italia

Helped curate guest experience; contextualized communications between Ostello Cinque Terre staff and guests; launched Cinque Terre Trail Clean-up Program.

Master'S Degree, Migration Studies

Research focus: Qualitative and Visual Research; Empathy, Advocacy, and Human Rights; Undocumented Students; Root Causes and the Right.

Certificate, Data Visualization

Bs, Intercultural Communications

Activities and Societies: University Water Polo Team

Certificate, Editing