Experience

This is Modest

• United States
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • Dec 2019 - Present

  Modest works to strengthen Maker Communities who wish to develop their design and making skills, creating goods that predominantly utilize native plant-based resources cultivated in managed forest systems or reforestation scenarios, in order to help rebuild natural systems. Through our projects with Non-profit / Community partners, we deploy Designers and Makers for skills-building exchanges and/or modest-scale fabrication opportunities. Through our projects we aim to demonstrate a working and accessible regenerative design model, whilst disseminating vital ecological comprehension over how we can design with and for natural and social systems. Show less



The City College of New York

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Landscape Architecture - Regenerative Design - Part-time faculty

  • 2019 - Present

  Part-time Lecturer in the Landscape Architecture department. Regenerative systems. Part-time Lecturer in the Landscape Architecture department. Regenerative systems.



Parsons School of Design - The New School

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Design - Regenerative Design - Part-time faculty

  • 2015 - Present

  Product Design, Junior Studio. Exploring the role designers can play in landscape restoration exploring concepts of regenerative design through plant-based material cultivation and product fabrication systems Product Design, Junior Studio. Exploring the role designers can play in landscape restoration exploring concepts of regenerative design through plant-based material cultivation and product fabrication systems



Beetle & Flor

• United States
• Design Services

• Designer, Owner

  • 2009 - Present

  Ceramic studio: Beetle & Flor. Small-batch, high end ceramic studio. Goods retail in US and internationally at vendors such as Michele Varian in Soho and Liberty in London. Work has been featured in the New York Times, Marie Claire and a slew of international publications. Showcased at the ICFF and NY Now. Internship program for experienced and emerging artists. www.beetleandflor.co Ceramic studio: Beetle & Flor. Small-batch, high end ceramic studio. Goods retail in US and internationally at vendors such as Michele Varian in Soho and Liberty in London. Work has been featured in the New York Times, Marie Claire and a slew of international publications. Showcased at the ICFF and NY Now. Internship program for experienced and emerging artists. www.beetleandflor.co



West Elm

• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Designer, Sculptor

  • Jun 2013 - Present

  Designed products for table-top, decorative accessories and lighting departments. Created tech packs. Currently fabricating ceramic prototypes. Designed products for table-top, decorative accessories and lighting departments. Created tech packs. Currently fabricating ceramic prototypes.



Gowanus Canal Conservancy

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Visual Communication and Research

  • 2015 - Present

  Gowanus Canal Conservancy, NY // 2015 -ongoing // Graphic Fellow. Bioswale manual: a collaborative effort between GCC, Trees NY and the Department of Environmental Protection. Pamphlets and educational posters: Design layout and illustrations describing grey and green infrastructure. Combined sewage overflow, invasive/native species, rainbarrels/raingardens and bioswales. STEM Gowanus Field Guide: Graphics, layout, research, copy. Gowanus Fieldguides including 'Trees and Shrubs' and 'Herbaceous'. Research and compilation of common vegetation around Gowanus area highlighting 'ecological values', ethnographic uses and remediation qualities. All work aimed for general public. Show less



Various

• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Non-Profit Crafts & Development

  • 2007 - 2015

  Developed and designed products for smaller socially-driven NGO’s and for-profit entities who utilized traditional crafting skills or established women’s training programs in underserved communities. Clients included: Norbulingka Institute (2007) - Product development with Tibetan refugee artisans in Northern India. Kokonor (2008-2011) - Product development with Tibetan refugee women, Northern India. Ghar Sita Mutu (2008) - Design for felt-training program aimed at disadvantaged women, Nepal. Angus McDonald Trust (2012) - Branding for End of Life Care organization based in Burma (work in UK). Work + Shelter (2013) - Product design for women’s training program, Delhi, India. NY Now gift fair display. Miranda the Red Panda India/NY, 2011 - 2014 Spearheaded collaborative project with Delhi based women’s cooperative and Smithsonian conservation biologist, with aim of bringing socially/ecologically responsible and educational toys to market. Smithsonian commission, 2013. Show less



Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Product Designer

  • Jan 2011 - Jan 2013

  Table-top and decorative accessories, specs and tech packs for vendors, factory followup and design adjustments. Design of patterns and repeats. Contributed to the design/sale of $8 million of table top items during 2011-2012 Table-top and decorative accessories, specs and tech packs for vendors, factory followup and design adjustments. Design of patterns and repeats. Contributed to the design/sale of $8 million of table top items during 2011-2012



E&E Co., Ltd. Jla home

• Product Designer

  • Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

  Updated bedmaps, designed bathroom accessories. Updated bedmaps, designed bathroom accessories.



Aveda

• Personal Care Product Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visual Merchandiser

  • Jan 2007 - 2009

  POP displays and seasonal inserts, planograms. Trained and managed new VM freelancers and staff. POP displays and seasonal inserts, planograms. Trained and managed new VM freelancers and staff.



Fundación Jatun Sacha

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern, Researcher

  • Jul 2001 - Jul 2003

  Worked in forest nursery, researched plant-materials, documented local craft techniques. Summer of 2001 and 2003 Worked in forest nursery, researched plant-materials, documented local craft techniques. Summer of 2001 and 2003