I'm a design researcher + strategist with a knack for leading teams from idea to action. My operations experience + my design mindset mean I can take the time to sit with complexity but also know when and how to move toward action.
I've spent the last year in the Food Systems Action Lab at the Institute of Design, where I've designed workshops, systems visualizations, and coordination strategies that helped food system stakeholders see themselves inside a system and choose to act on it collectively.
I'm in my final semester at the Institute of Design, and the through-line of my work is clear: I want to enable the conditions that support the coordination of people inside complex systems that no single organization or citizen could navigate alone. Two applications of this energize me right now. The first is civic: helping everyday people make sense of the systems that govern their lives — government, deliberation, decision-making — and feel empowered to actively participate rather than be bystanders. The other is physical: making cities and streets more human-centered, so people see their neighborhoods as places they have a stake in, not just infrastructure they pass through.
The strengths I lean on, especially when things get messy..
