Experience

Edelman

• United States
• Public Relations and Communications Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Designer

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  Advancing 21C goals and client activations through innovative design. Serving clients such as Roche, CVS Health, Adobe, American Heart Association, and Starbucks, I combine creative innovation with strategic thinking to drive business success and achieve meaningful impact. Extensive experience collaborating with teams across the globe to identify key messages, develop creative concepts, and design presentations that align with brand standards and meet project objectives. Advancing 21C goals and client activations through innovative design. Serving clients such as Roche, CVS Health, Adobe, American Heart Association, and Starbucks, I combine creative innovation with strategic thinking to drive business success and achieve meaningful impact. Extensive experience collaborating with teams across the globe to identify key messages, develop creative concepts, and design presentations that align with brand standards and meet project objectives.



Design for Agency

• United States
• Design

• Founder, Strategic Designer

  • May 2014 - Present

  Design for Agency is a design practice that uses collaborative methods to work with communities and groups to explore the potential impact, or agency, they might have with the short and long-term issues that most affect their lives. Our signature project, Building Blocks, empowers neighbors to take a greater role in building their communities, using collaborative problem solving and underutilized resources to tackle shared quality of life issues while engaging with the commons as an untapped source of community wellbeing. Show less



Freelance

• Branding and Design Consultant

  • May 2010 - Mar 2023

  Creative problem solving – specializing in branding, packaging design, product and brand development, innovation, with a aesthetic that is clear, bold, and approachable. Creative problem solving – specializing in branding, packaging design, product and brand development, innovation, with a aesthetic that is clear, bold, and approachable.



Let's Collaborate!

• United States
• Events Services

• Coordinator

  • Jan 2014 - Aug 2015

  I aid in the coordination and facilitation of sharing/barter/gift economy-based public events in New York City with Melissa O'Young, founder of Let's Collaborate!. I also facilitate small community-based sharing workshops where small groups exchange services/object(s) or skills they needed for free, or as barter. With a focus on emerging sharing initiatives, I've contributed articles for Sharable.net and Collaborativeconsumption.com, including an interview with Streetbank.com founder, Sam Stephens and coverage on gift economy platform, Impossible.com, founded by Model and social entrepreneur, Lily Cole. I document events with photography and video and maintain social media websites, Twitter and Facebook. Show less



Commune Inc.

• New York

• Experience Design and Community Relations

  • Nov 2014 - Jul 2015

  I managed a six month pilot program to develop a digital civic meeting notification service. I recruited and worked with residents of all 5 boroughs in New York City to collaborate and test relevance of the notification app. I designed and facilitated the workshops to test functions and gain learnings from stakeholders, and worked with community leaders in all 5 boroughs to spread awareness and build partnerships. Key skills: user experience design, community engagement, facilitation, analysis and iteration of project Show less



The New School

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant, transFORM Symposium, 2014

  • Jan 2014 - Jun 2014

  I facilitated the organization and development for an international symposium with the theme of alternative economic domains and the academic support required for the multitude of approaches to this theme. The symposium was held simultaneously between Paris and New York. I helped produce the structure and supportive materials for collaboration to be used during the day-long workshop to gather insights and develop an agenda for emerging new economic initiatives. I designed the point of contact collateral including logo, invitation, website, and managed the site and physical content supplied by pre and post symposium activities. As the New York coordinator, I also facilitated the New York side of the day-long workshop and documented the process through photography, video. Show less



Clark McDowall

• Innovation Creative

  • May 2010 - Dec 2010

  -in depth auditing and research of trends/markets -product and packaging innovation -naming and product copy development -packaging design and presentation executions -in depth auditing and research of trends/markets -product and packaging innovation -naming and product copy development -packaging design and presentation executions



Pearlfisher

• United States
• Design Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Designer

  • Feb 2007 - Apr 2010

  Developed identity, branding and packaging concepts and solutions to entrepreneurial and mass market brands both internationally and US wide. Developed identity, branding and packaging concepts and solutions to entrepreneurial and mass market brands both internationally and US wide.



Borsa Wallace

• United States
• Graphic Design

• Design Intern

  • 2004 - 2005