Centennial Event Design

The centennial work included branding and travleing with the UCLA chancellor to Alumni events across Asia, and coordinating the TEDxUCLA event at Royce HAll to culminate in a centennial projection mapped light show.

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

 

 

Highlights from the TED Circles Pilot

Finding the Big Ideas

TEDxUCLA was launched in 2011, and our teams of students and volunteers help make it grow into one of the more popular and impactful TEDx events.  I worked in 2024 and 2025 to move the license to a new team of students and administators in the chancellors office before leaving UCLA.

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

TEDxUCLA

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

UCLA Master Series Covers

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

UCLA Volunteer Center

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.

Cal Poly SLO Staircase ComputerCal Poly Interview

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.

VASA's WebsiteArt Direction for Book #1