AUSTIN, TEXAS
Strategic Research and Design for Eco, Health, and Education Systems
I collaborate with mission-driven teams to design ethical, evidence-based technology—bridging people, data, and environmental insight. My work lives at the intersection of user experience, systems thinking, and science communication.
UX STRATEGIST @ UT AUSTIN
WIP: Building a public portal for climate resilience and community-driven research
STRATEGIC UX LEADERSHIP
CIVIC-ORIENTED SYSTEMS DESIGN
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT & TRANSLATION
Leading research synthesis, stakeholder engagement, and UX strategy for a public-facing platform that curates stories, insights, and tools from a decade of interdisciplinary climate research--serving as a digital showcase and gateway to action for communities, educators, and policymakers. (2024-present)
SCIENCE COMMS AND UX DESIGNER @ UT AUSTIN
Data storytelling in climate science for improved stakeholder engagement
INFOGRAPHICS
REPORT DESIGN
CONTENT STRATEGY
Translating climate research data into meaningful information for community and government, driving visual design and content edits, and enabling the City of Austin to release the report in a heat health press conference in June 2024. (2023–2024)
STUDENT UX RESEARCHER @ UT AUSTIN
Measuring consumer trust in personal health records game-changer
UX RESEARCH
usability testing
heuristics
Testing for understandability, likability, and user trust, designing presentation of usability insights, and informing researchers about user concerns with blockchain features, resulting in a published paper. (2021)
FREELANCE UX DESIGNER @ DUKE FARMS
Improving visitor navigation and engagement at a nature preserve
MOBILE DESIGN
SITE VISITS
PROJECT COORDINATION
Collaboration, fact-gathering and UX research to form requirements, prototyping and testing usability, and designing marketing assets, resulting in fewer paper maps and less strain on staff to provide directions to visitors. (2018-2019)
STUDENT RAI RESEARCHER @ UT AUSTIN
Participatory workshops exploring RAI through human factors for improved access to relevant RAI resources
RESPONSIBLE AI
HUMAN-AI INTERACTION
HCI RESEARCH
Designing an independent study, recruiting 14 AI stakeholders from various professional contexts, conducting 1x1 participatory workshops, and analyzing data resulting in a proposal for a user-friendly responsible AI resources cataloging system based on cognitive points of entry. (2024)
STUDENT HAI RESEARCHER @ UT AUSTIN
Human performance with emotion AI in hiring: Data viz and reactions
HCI/AI RESEARCH
mixed methods
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Quantifying impact of facial sentiment analysis emotion-AI (EAI) on 9 participants during video interviews, qualifying their reactions to data visualizations in EAI reports, and learning how they feel about EAI in hiring vs. as an interview prep tool. (2023)
SENIOR UX DESIGNER @ EY
Innovating ethical supply-chain risk management system via blockchain
WIREFRAMES
COMPLEX SYSTEM
BLOCKCHAIN
Leading information architecture, designing interactive prototypes, and enabling demo of blockchain technology applied to the management of forced labor risk through a multiparty supply-chain risk management platform. (2021–2022)