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 information and education throughout my career in terms of who I work with, for and the types of projects I take on, coach and teach. I’m actively engaged with other design educators and current pedagogy through the Future of Design in Higher Education group, EduCHI, the Design Justice Network, the Design Research Society and the Information Architecture Academic and Practitioners organizations.

From 2016-2022 I was the UX design lead in the product development group at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard, where I collaborated with multiple teams to develop tools to help researchers share data. I led UX research and design for three products: Dataverse, OpenDP, and Sid, a high-performance research computing environment. While I was at Harvard 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, designed and delivered a UI system for controlling features in 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 Education.

Before cofounding 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 any local AIGA board and led programming for experience design events for the Boston community.

I began my career at WGBH Design in Boston, where I worked with AIGA medalist Christopher Pullman, Doug Scott and Alison Kennedy and at Shepard/Quraeshi Associates, an architecture and design firm co-led by 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 delving in to museum leadership and exhibition interpretation through Harvard Extension School.