My design and technology practice centers on the convergence and cross-pollination between narrative, information, and aesthetics. With formal training in the humanities but mostly on-the-job training in design and software development, my start in collaborative and self-publishing and grassroots projects grew gradually into a design career focused on enhancing content, empowering editors and writers, and creating sophisticated but accessible experiences for readers.
I’m a layout designer, newsroom technologist, and occasional data journalist; I’ve done book and broadsheet newspaper design but also branding, storyboarding UI/UX, content and data modeling, app design, data visualization and server administration. My specialty is working on content-driven web publications with editors, writers, and fellow media workers. I’ve also worked on a wide range of design objectives organized around other kinds of engagement, especially social movement organizing and political engagement.
For five years starting in 2016, I was part of the design and interactives team at EdSource, a nonprofit news source on California education. Prior to that I worked at Citizen Engagement Lab, which was my landing point from several years spent working as a freelancer. I served commercial and non-profit clients across the U.S. and in Europe both independently and with 10x Management and the Tech Underground consultant network.
For a sampling of design work please also see my portfolio on Behance. For code creations, here’s my Github page.
Awards:
First place, 2021 for Informational Graphics by the California News Publishers Association, along with Daniel J. Willis, for work on Following Covid Money in Education for EdSource. | 2022
Finalist, 2021 Visual Storytelling awards from Education Writers Association for work on Following Covid Money in Education for EdSource with Daniel J. Willis | 2022
Homepage Layout & Design (statewide, 4th place) for EdSource homepage and Story presentation, Page Layout & Design (small newsroom category, 5th place) for work on Education During Covid: California Families Struggle to Learn by EdSource, at the 2020 California Journalism Awards Digital Contest by the California News Publishers Association | 2021
Story presentation, Page Layout & Design award. Placed 3rd in the small newsroom category for the 2019 California Journalism Awards Digital Contest by the California News Publishers Association, for work on Rural California: An Education Divide by EdSource | 2020
Visual Storytelling award, from Education Writers Association for 2018’s Tainted Taps along with the other members of the data and interactives team at EdSource | 2019
Selected work:
- AfroLA, full WordPress website build for new online publication covering Black news in Los Angeles. | 2023
- Crisis Hub WordPress landing page for Nextdoor in response to natural disasters. | 2023
- Vipassanā In Certain Conditions, a collaboration in electronic poetry. | 2023
- Endo/Exo Writer’s Project, a collaborative academic project on socio-economic class in 19th century literature (more about this here). Some work on website, and original research. | 2022
- Following Covid Money in Education for EdSource with Daniel J. Willis | interactive design, writing, data journalism | 2021
- Disconnected: Internet stops once school ends for many rural California students for EdSource | web design, photo curation, interactives and data support | 2019
- Rural California: An Education Divide for EdSource | web design, photo curation, interstitial music for the documentary film | 2019
- Student homelessness package for EdSource | web design, data & interactives team support | 2017
- Long Hot Summer of 1967 microsite for Timeline | ux + coding | 2017
- EdSource Symposium website | web design and development | 2016
- EdSource redesign | web design, branding, development | 2016
- FCYO redesign / rebuild for FCYO while at Citizen Engagement Lab (CEL) | web design, site remodel, new backend | 2016
- MPower Change website and action pages, while at CEL | web development | 2015
- Hearing View Rheinau for Sam Auinger and Bruce Odland | ui/ux, web adaptation from print | 2014
- zenaud.io website | web design, development | 2014
- zenaud.io ALK looper | design work on user interface for Apple music software | 2014
- Annual Report microsite for Performing Arts Workshop | design and development | 2013
- Work on Colorlines.com (previous website) | web development | 2013
- American Mavericks festival website for the San Francisco Symphony | web design and development | 2012
- San Francisco Public Press newspaper and website refresh | co-designed initial broadsheet newspaper layout, then led a rebranding | 2011, 2012
- 580 Split for Mills College | book design, layout & typesetting | 2011