Hello! I am a designer, researcher, facilitator, and educator working for equity and social justice.
Working with design clients: Tools and advice for successful partnerships
“Working with design clients: Tools and advice for successful partnerships” is a practical guide to help design students and educators manage and operate student-run design firms in higher education. To be published in October 2024, I co-wrote this textbook with Meaghan Dee, Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University.
These are Love(d) Letters
I created the graphic design and imagery for this book that investigates the rhetorical form of the love letter through visual and textual exploration. The cover and book design was named a winner at Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show 2020.
Innovation & Impact: Cultivating Food Equity
Using entrepreneurial thinking to generate ideas that imagine a more equitable future food system, students learn to recognize and cultivate opportunities for a range of innovative projects such as business ventures, social and civic services, and creative projects in media, arts, and design. Designed as a transformative DEI educational experience, the class offers structures for students to assess, leverage and add to their own skills sets through transdisciplinary collaboration and proactive self-evaluation practices.
Managing the Creative Process Within Graphic Design Firms: A Literature Review
This literature review examines an array of research that interrogates how the creative process in graphic design firms can be most successfully managed.