My background in architectural design informs my approach to designing digital spaces and products.
Professional Experience
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The Education Design Lab national nonprofit that co-designs, prototypes, and tests education-to-workforce models through a human-centered design process
Role: Design strategy and management of the Lab’s digital ecosystem of websites, software and apps
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Public is an investment platform focused on multi-asset portfolios
Role: Lead Researcher for Infrastructure and Growth teams
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Coinbase is an exchange platform for buying, selling and storing cryptocurrency
Role: UX and Product research on the Platform team for investor portfolios
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U.S. Digital Response helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs by facilitating teams of volunteers to work on projects
Role: Project Management for a tool that helps Afghan refugees decide where they would like to relocate in the U.S.
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NYC Mayor’s Office of the CTO uses technology to improve online social services
Role: UX research on a team embedded within the Department of Finance
Academic Appointments
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Projects in Information Experience Design is a studio that creates websites and information systems to support client organizations and institutions
Role: Establish organizational needs and principles with clients and guide student teams through a full project lifecycle from research to design; while ensuring the final product supports organizational vision and meets user needs
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Introduction to Architectural Design is a studio that teaches fundamental workflows, strategies and methodologies for designing buildings using 3D-modeling software
Previous Collaborators
National Gallery of Art
Transportation Alternatives
CUNY CityTech, OpenLab
One Degree Impact
Mind Over Pain
Travel Unity
Witness to Mass Incarceration
Edgemere Farms
New York Mycological Society
New York Microscopical Society
ClimateScience.org
Welcome to Chinatown
Fibromyalgia Care Society of America
Rescue City
Education
Master’s of Science in Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia University 2018
Bachelor’s of Architecture, Syracuse University, 2015
Work Influences
Buckminister Fuller’s Spaceship Earth
Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog
Emma Williard’s The Temple of Time
Mariabruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli’s Database, Network, Interface
Wendy Fok’s digitalStructures
Nicholas Negroponte’s The Architecture Machine
Cedric Price and John Frazer’s The Generator Project