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San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Led the core product experience team for Twine, a financial app that uses behavioral economics to increase savings. - Increased net revenue by 15% in 1 month by rapidly executing A/B experiments. - Launched Retirement savings goals, a new and strategic line of business for the company. Led a cross-functional product development team through multiple launch phases from internal tests to national public launch.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Managed three product teams across two multi-million dollar portfolios at Code for America: criminal justice and workforce development.- Identified two new strategic product opportunities to advance Code for America’s mission to improve government services, and formed product teams, budgets, and milestones to kick off work.- Rapidly prototyped and released a tool that helped more than 2,000 job seekers find training opportunities at launch. Within a month of launch, two governors and the national Department of Education requested purchasing this product to scale to millions of users.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Set product vision, strategy, and delivery for a criminal justice product that reduces recidivism by enabling text messaging between probation officers and justice-involved individuals. - Scaled product from early-stage prototype to widely-used tool, increasing usage by 10X while retaining 90% weekly retention.- Launched a data science feature set applying machine learning and NLP to help government decision makers understand needs and policy priorities in the criminal justice system.- Reduced bench warrants by 50% and rearrests by 67% for cities that used this product.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Led product strategy and objectives, and managed design and engineering teams for Change Politics, a new civic engagement platform that made voting easier for citizens on Election Day.- Managed rapid iteration from greenfield idea to widely-publicized launch to 90M users within four months. Maintained average month-over-month user growth of 40%. - Designed features that generated engagement from multiple high-priority user groups including presidential campaigns, national advocacy organizations, political influencers, and citizens. Generated tens of thousands of user-generated candidate endorsements to help millions of voters cast ballots.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Led international user research, product vision, and UX/UI design for a new platform for Decision Makers of online petitions.- Conceptualized and produced design solutions based on interviews with heads of state, Fortune 100 CEOs, and many more, and launched multiple new products enabling these leaders to engage with Change.org’s 150M users in 196 countries.- Increased target user engagement by over 30% annually, resulting in the second-highest engaging content across the entire platform.

New York, Ny, Us

Led product development, user research, and design for "the ad network for ideas": micro op-eds that gave experts and organizations the ability to integrate their commentary in a news story, generating premium revenue for publishers and giving readers access to relevant, high-quality opinions.- Owned and executed product and design process, from initial customer development through UX design and fully-coded prototypes for a product which reached 50,000,000 monthly unique users and led to a 26X increase in publisher revenue per thousand readers.- Continually tested, iterated, and refined product design and objectives, leading to a 300X increase in audience engagement.- Designed, wrote, and developed what clients saw and identified opportunities to engage more deeply with our product. This led to a 107X increase in awareness of an organization across our national userbase.Versa was acquired by Change.org in March 2015.

Owned product strategy, design, and development lifecycles for a civic engagement startup, synthesizing millions of political data points into profiles for thousands of politicians.- Led product strategy and end-to-end design, from initial concepts and user research through final product reaching 100,000 average monthly users.- Synchronized engineering and business development efforts, maintaining coordination between publisher partnerships and product development, resulting in a 300% increase in average weekly publisher integrations.- Designed, tested, and oversaw development of a news scraper, topic modeler, and dashboard that analyzed and categorized a politician's media mentions by issue.ElectNext rebranded to Versa in January 2013.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Established brand identity, user experience, and creative vision for Kembrel, an e-commerce startup with pop-up stores to support local makers and artisans. - Led the strategy and design of a website overhaul, leading to a 600% increase in paid conversions and 500% increase in transaction size- Hired and managed the creative team, including graphic designers, photographers, videographers, marketing, and stylists, to maintain the brand's look and style through multiple avenues.- Developed and executed voice and content strategy across email, social media, and physical events for a subscriber base of over 40,000, leading to a 150% increase in customer engagement across all channels.

Designed and developed an e-commerce site and web presence for a luxury boutique. Strategized and executed a marketing campaign, including writing press releases, building email and social media campaigns around local events, and producing a blog with guest writers, designer interviews, and store tie-ins.

Designed and applied publicity programs and marketing strategies for clients through content management, web design, and social media.

Covered art news in Philadelphia for a readership of 90,000.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Organized programming to teach over 600 students the mechanics and benefits of cycling.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Managed a docent program with foster youth in Philadelphia & implemented youth programming. Conducted a summer research project on puppets with Ingrid Shaffner, Senior Curator (funded by the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships)

Ba, Fine Arts

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