About
I’m originally from Philadelphia, USA. I studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communications Design in 2009, and since then have been practicing design in various forms.
My first few jobs were at advertising and design agencies in support of fashion brands. While these jobs were very exciting, interesting, and I learned a lot, I felt uneasy about the exploitation of labor and environmental destruction of the fashion industry. So, I gradually shifted my focus toward projects which weren’t making the world a worse place. Taking a course in “Life Architecture” with aequa helped me to further define my values and align my actions with those values.
I’ve been based in Berlin, Germany since 2016. I’m a freelancer and open to new projects—especially in the areas of social justice, community building, the environment, education, the arts, or small business. While my primary working language is English, I take on projects in German as well. If you want more professional info, check out my LinkedIn profile.
Here I am facilitating a design workshop for care.com. While working there I also organized a “PowerPoint Makeover” session in which we beautified and clarified confusing, text-heavy, and downright ugly presentations which saturate working environments everywhere.
I do comedy, too!
I love to mix creativity and humor, which I do with my main hobby: long-form improv. You can often find me at the Comedy Café Berlin, either performing or watching shows. I enjoy the collaborative, spontaneous, and creative aspects of improv. Not to mention making people laugh and hopefully providing some transcendent and happy moments for the audience members.
I also dabble in stand-up comedy, which I learned via the Berlin Stand-up School.
