I am an experienced design educator, leader, researcher, author and artist teaching and leading design curriculum development and implementation at Wheaton College in Norton, MA. My teaching and research investigate and apply ethical, just and pluriversal methods as a foundation for professional practice. Previous and ongoing research includes designing for data sharing and privacy, methods for teaching using inclusive pedagogy and use of visual design as a tool for effective communication.

I’ve intentionally focused on education throughout my career. One way I do this is by taking a stance of using interdisciplinary design methods as a tools for clear, accessible and engaging information and interactions during research, ideation and assessment. I’m actively engaged with the Future of Design in Higher Education, EduCHI, the Design Justice Network, the Design Research Society and Information Architecture Academic and Practitioners professional organizations.

From 2016-2022 I was the UX design lead in the product development group at the Harvard University Institute for Quantitative Social Science, where I collaborated with multiple teams to develop tools to help researchers share data. I led UX for the Dataverse and OpenDP open source products and improved UX for a new high-performance computing environment. I represented end-user perspectives in multiple university research computing initiatives and served as a chair of the University’s Experience Design community.

Prior to my work at Harvard I was an independent design strategist, UX consultant and information architect. I worked with Stoltze on projects for the Picower Institute at MIT and SACI, the arts college in Florence, Italy. I led UX discovery and designed and delivered a UI system for new classrooms at Harvard.

I co-founded and led the Boston UX firm Nimble Partners for over 11 years. Nimble provided user-centered design services for clients including Oracle, Juniper, Kayak.com, Napster, Umbra Ltd., Women Deliver, Burning Glass Technologies (now Emsi BurningGlass), CafePress.com, numerous startups and over fourteen offices and departments at MIT, including the VP for Finance, MIT Medical, The Office of Housing and the Office of Minority Development.

Before founding Nimble I defined service offerings and led professional service designers at web personalization software pioneer ATG (Art Technology Group), acquired by Oracle. While at ATG I served as the first Experience Design chair on a local AIGA board and led programming for experience design events for the Boston community.

I began my carrer at WGBH Design in Boston with AIGA medalist Christopher Pullman and at Shepard/Quraeshi Associates with AIGA medalist Samina Quraeshi.

I have a MDes (terminal degree) in human-centered communication design from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology and studied designing tools for learning under professor Sharon Poggenpohl. I have a BFA in graphic design from Boston University. I was honored to study in Brissago, Switzerland with renowned designers Armin Hofmann, Paul Rand and Richard Sapper through the Yale Summer Program in Graphic Design.

Recent artwork and study includes learning the painting techniques of Charles Hawthorne through the Cape School of Art in Provincetown, MA, designing repeating patterns and using them in home decor and museum leadership and exhibition interpretation through Harvard Extension School.