Experience

Kinship

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Junior Designer

  • Apr 2022 - Present

  Support senior designers in the creation of a wide range of creative touchpoints, including digital (mobile, web), email, social, video, online editorial, print, physical merch/swag, and visual identity design elements (e.g. logos, iconography, illustrations). Work with writers and use design to create effective, harmonious communications that land brand messaging and achieve audience engagement goals. When needed, assist with visual audits across all Kinship portfolio brands and competitor brands.



Amanda Gomez Design

• Freelance Graphic Designer

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  Create interesting visual designs across several areas, ranging from digital to print. Facilitate production of various materials to establish a visual identity, tone, and style. Clients include Ark Foods, Local Technique, Step Mobile, and GLAAD. Create interesting visual designs across several areas, ranging from digital to print. Facilitate production of various materials to establish a visual identity, tone, and style. Clients include Ark Foods, Local Technique, Step Mobile, and GLAAD.



NYU Langone Health

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Graphic Designer

  • Jul 2021 - Apr 2022

  Supported team throughout the execution of various campaigns and projects. Offered input in creative meetings and communicated with senior team members to produce attractive and effective designs for all media. Manual labor such as cutting, mounting, or laminating. Supported team throughout the execution of various campaigns and projects. Offered input in creative meetings and communicated with senior team members to produce attractive and effective designs for all media. Manual labor such as cutting, mounting, or laminating.



The City University of New York

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Design Your City at CUNY Cohort

  • Jan 2021 - Mar 2021

  Developed a proposal for a place-based solution to a real, built-environment problem in a community. Learned valuable skills, tools, and best practices used in community-centered planning, including how to research the community’s history, analyze different data sources, understand the stakeholder landscape, and build support for your idea. At the end of Design Your City, was given the opportunity to pitch the proposal to a panel of professionals. Pitch Proposal can be found here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/113941739/Brownsville-Community-Square



ContempCo

• United States
• Design Services

• Graphic Design Intern

  • Feb 2021 - Feb 2021

  Translated client needs and branding into design strategies, visual concepts, and identity. Collaborated with, and articulated, and pitched design concepts to, art directors, branding experts, marketing, and other professionals to create diverse media. Translated client needs and branding into design strategies, visual concepts, and identity. Collaborated with, and articulated, and pitched design concepts to, art directors, branding experts, marketing, and other professionals to create diverse media.



Managed by Q

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Winter Intern

  • Jan 2018 - Jan 2018

  Chosen by Break Through Tech (formerly known as WiTNY) for a Winter internship out of over five hundred applicants, and was placed at a start-up called Managed by Q for a full-time, two-week intern position. Developed an org chart for the company using Pingboard with two other interns. Used both manual and automated processes through google sheets, to create a profile for each employee within the company. Also attended numerous one-on-one, and team, meetings with different departments and staff. Chosen by Break Through Tech (formerly known as WiTNY) for a Winter internship out of over five hundred applicants, and was placed at a start-up called Managed by Q for a full-time, two-week intern position. Developed an org chart for the company using Pingboard with two other interns. Used both manual and automated processes through google sheets, to create a profile for each employee within the company. Also attended numerous one-on-one, and team, meetings with different departments and staff.



WiTNY @ Cornell Tech and CUNY

• Summer Guild Intern

  • Jul 2017 - Jul 2017

  Selected for a paid intensive experiential learning program hosted by Cornell Tech and CUNY combining design thinking and computer science. Learned empathy mapping, point of view, interviewing skills, user-centered design, brainstorming, public speaking and presentation skills, prototyping, and iteration, all in the context of a challenge from the NYC Dept. of City Planning. Wrote business and functional requirements documents. Introduced to Python, HTML, graphic and web design, app development, and data analysis. Collaborated with team members, to create digital solutions to real-world problems. Networked with professional women in tech and CUNY students and faculty in the Break Through Tech (formerly known as WiTNY) community.



Queens Museum

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Queens Teens Intern

  • Sep 2014 - May 2017

  Queens Teens offers local youth opportunities to gain exposure to a cultural institution, while developing their own creative interest and passion for the arts. The Teens become part of a close-knit peer network that fosters personal and professional growth. In this program youth learn about how contemporary art and social justice intersect. We make art, visit cultural events and institutions across NYC in order to learn about the power of cultural production to have a positive impact on society. The group usually meets Saturday afternoons (and other mutually agreed on times throughout the year) at the Queens Museum for artmaking, exhibition tours, skill-building workshops, and presentations by Museum staff.

• Curatorial Intern

  • Mar 2016 - May 2016

  Coordinated with curators to plan museum instillations and exhibitions. Worked closely with team to construct certain facets of Queens International 2016.