Implementing Design as a Driver for Big Ideas, Insights and Solutions

Teaching, Course Development, and Advising. Course planning and oversight for approximately 50 classes a Quarter, engagement with Los Angeles universities and purposed focused companies and individuals.

TED Circles

TED Circles is an open platform of small groups that meet for conversations about ideas.

Part of core team that produced a three-month ‘insight sprint’ with weekly meetings  to find the need and developed and ran workshops at TED Summit. program official launches January 2020

Finding the Big Ideas

And helping them grow leveraging the diverse megaphones of UCLA

Role: Speaker Coach, co-curator, branding, UCLA license holder

75th Anniversary Campus identity Logo + Event Design

My start at UCLA included designing the 75th anniversary logo with applications, and later event design for the Centennial, tied to TEDxUCLA, and travel with the UCLA Chancellor in Asia

Deep Dive Volunteering

Hands on with the Community at scale.

Projects: Core Team Building the Virtual and Physical Center at its start, including: Website, Branding, Volunteer Day, Consulting

UCLA Newsroom Article on 10th Anniversary

Slightly Obsessed with the Maker Movement

And how it is reshaping the design field.

Role: I create one off maker projects for talks at universities, and I do builds for events with arduinos, makey makey’s, electronics hacks and CNC builds.

I love working with highly accomplished artists

Giving voice to their work and museum shows through posters, artist books, photography of art, and website development.

Role: Photography of art, art direction of artists books, design of website and studio collateral.