# Amanda Lo > UX Designer II @ Detroit Labs Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/amandalo ## Work Experience ### UX Designer II @ Detroit Labs Jan 2021 – Present Detroit Labs offers a people-first approach to building products, services, and software teams. We're a custom software development company that designs and builds mobile and web products—and the teams behind them—through a culture of growth, teamwork, and opportunity. ### Program Director @ Develop for Good Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Stanford, California, United States Develop for Good is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that pairs, trains, and supports student volunteers as they develop technical product solutions for nonprofits. Our aim is to empower the next generation of leaders in tech to commit their skills for social good early on in their careers and accelerate the digital transformation of the nonprofit sector. ### Design Lead @ Develop for Good Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Stanford, California, United States Previously titled Chief Design Officer. Title updated to Design Lead after organizational restructure. ### Product Lead @ Develop for Good Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Stanford, California, United States Previously titled Managing Director of UX Design. Title updated to Product Lead after organizational restructure. ### Product Manager @ Develop for Good Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Stanford, California, United States ### UX Writer @ Students of UXD Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Students of UXD is a community made by UXD students, for UXD students. As a nonprofit community for students of all ages pursuing UX design, our mission is to make the world of human-centered design more human through interactive and educational panels, workshops, and other forms of community engagement. ### UX Design Intern @ Logos Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Logos is a decentralized news platform for the new age of digital media. Our goal is to disrupt the state of journalism by providing a platform for journalists to convert their readers into monthly paid subscribers, as well as a news consumption experience that empowers the modern news consumer. ### UX Design and Research Assistant @ UCSD Design Lab Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Applied human-centered design principles and practices to find solutions for problem spaces within the UC San Diego Design Lab's Diabetes Design Initiative (DDI) and the Connected Learning Pathway (CLP) program. The UC San Diego Design Lab works on major societal issues, such as large-scale education, automation, healthcare, visualization of complex phenomena and data, social interactions, citizen science, and the ethical issues that are of ever-increasing importance. ### MAIP 2020 Fellow @ 4As Foundation Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Selected as a Creative Technologies / UX Design Fellow. The Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP) is a 22-week nationwide fellowship that hands selects the best talent across the country to begin their careers in advertising fields. In 2020, the Virtual Engagement Program (VEP) was born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing professional development, agency project experience, and career opportunities for MAIP 2020 Fellows. ### FDI Lab Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of California, San Diego - Jacobs School of Engineering Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | La Jolla, California The FAIR Data Informatics (FDI) Lab is a UCSD-based bioinformatics lab composed of several projects in different biomedical research and disciplines. The FDI Lab is a leader in developing and providing novel informatics infrastructure and tools for making data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. ### Rosenfeld Lab Undergraduate Researcher @ University of California, San Diego - School of Medicine Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | La Jolla, California The Rosenfeld Lab in the UCSD School of Medicine has made seminal contributions to the fields of epigenetic regulatory mechanisms, the enhancer code of development, regulation of enhancers and the discovery of induced eRNAs, the roles of phase separation in ligand-induced enhancer activation/function, genetic regulation of transcriptional mechanisms, nuclear receptors, global genomic strategies, pituitary development, and learning and memory. The lab is currently investigating abnormalities in enhancer regulation as a major component of multiple degenerative diseases including sporadic AD using single cell/nucleus global genomic approaches. ### Palomar Pathmaker Intern @ Palomar Health Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater San Diego Area The Palomar Pathmaker internship provides hands-on clinical experience to pre-health students interested in pursuing careers in all fields of the health care industry. Pathmaker interns serve alongside health care professionals in many facets of the industry, working together to provide patient support under the guidance of staff in the provision of a safe, comfortable, and confidential environment. ### OASIS Language Arts Tutorial Services Writing Tutor @ UC San Diego Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | La Jolla, California The OASIS Language Arts Tutorial Services (LATS) provides high-quality, culturally relevant academic support services in writing, reading, and study skills to all UCSD college students, while specializing in empowering UCSD’s diverse student population, particularly first-generation students, underserved and underrepresented minority students, low-income students, and English Language Learners. ### OASIS Language Arts Tutorial Services Workshop Facilitator @ UC San Diego Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | La Jolla, California ### OASIS Language Arts Tutorial Services Student Clerk @ UC San Diego Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | La Jolla, California ### CASP Peer Leader and Mentor @ UC San Diego Chancellor's Associates Scholars Program Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | La Jolla, California Through scholarship funding, services, and programs, the Chancellor’s Associates Scholarship Program (CASP) recognizes and supports talented local students with financial need and great potential and motivation to academically succeed at UC San Diego. The program represents UC San Diego's full commitment to support and develop scholars through graduation; it provides a wide range of services and opportunities to ensure that they thrive as UC San Diego undergraduate students, and are fully engaged in academics, student life, and university experiences. ### George Lab Research Intern @ Scripps Research Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Diego, California Scripps Research aims to expand basic knowledge in the biosciences in order to use these fundamental advancements to develop profound innovations that improve wellbeing. Our researchers are accelerating the creation and delivery of medical breakthroughs to better human health around the globe. The George Lab focuses on unveiling the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the transition to drug addiction and developing novel pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments to reduce compulsive drug seeking and taking. ## Education ### Double Major: B.S. - Biochemistry and Cell Biology in B.A. - Psychology UC San Diego ### UC Education Abroad Program - Fall Semester 2019 Utrecht University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amandalo97 --- Source: https://flows.cv/amandalo JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/amandalo/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-08