Experience
2025 — Now
Oakland, CA
Brand and visual communications lead for California's leading children's policy organization. Own brand strategy, design systems, and creative operations across digital, print, and public-facing materials.
• Led a brand refresh from the ground up, collaborating with executive leadership to define brand strategy and build a cohesive visual identity and comprehensive guidelines.
• Partnered with researchers, policy experts, and executives to design flagship reports and high-visibility presentations, translating complex data into clear, accessible visuals.
• Contributed to a Creative Services infrastructure overhaul, co-developing a project intake system and owning the branded asset library and file system setup.
• Built a Figma Buzz template library for social, enabling marketing teams to produce on-brand assets quickly and in bulk.
2023 — 2025
2023 — 2025
Oakland, CA
Designed across brand, digital, and print channels, balancing multiple concurrent projects spanning social media, web, campaigns, and publications.
• Identified UX gaps and co-led a component-driven website redesign from concept to launch, resulting in a 12% decrease in bounce rate and increased time-on-page for blog content.
• Produced social media assets and content that drove a 47% increase in engagement and 289% growth on LinkedIn.
• Produced a full suite of cross-channel branded templates — presentations, letterheads, and reports — ensuring visual consistency across all communications.
2021 — 2023
2021 — 2023
San Francisco, CA
Independent brand design practice working with small businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area.
2020 — 2021
2020 — 2021
Davis, CA
Contributed to redesign efforts for two nonprofit websites in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.
• Applied UX/UI principles to improve usability, accessibility, and visual hierarchy across key digital touchpoints
2019 — 2020
2019 — 2020
Davis, CA
Shaped the visual and editorial direction of a university design publication alongside editors and fellow designers.
Education
University of California, Davis