Design
Present
Staff Product Designer, Adobe Express, AI & Enterprise [since 2025]
Past
- Senior Designer II, Samsara
- Staff Designer, Code for America
- Fractional Design Director, World Resources Institute
- Senior Designer, Google
- Designer, Intentional Futures
Recognition
- Time, Can AI Help You Do Your Taxes, 2024
- NBC News, ‘So Darn Easy’: IRS’ Free Direct File Pilot Program Already a Hit with Early Users, 2024
- Business Wire, AI Innovation Built to Solve Operational Challenges and Reimagine Frontline Work, 2024
- Forbes, How Google’s Work with Motorbike Riders Demonstrates Plan for Emerging Markets, 2019
- Google Design, Designing Google Maps for Motorbikes, 2018
- Google UX, Inclusive Design Systems Award, 2018
- NY Art Directors Club, Top 100 Designers in the US, 2011
Writing
Selected Reported Essays
- The Machines are Deciding Now. What Becomes of Us, Substack, 2026
- I Don’t Know What’s Real Anymore, Substack, 2025
- Living in an AI Takeover Without Losing Your Soul, Substack, 2025
- Designers Have a Seat At the Table. Now What Should They Do With It, Fast Company, 2023
- How Deindustrialization Shaped My Working-Class Family, In These Times, 2022
- There’s a Crack in the Pavement, UX Collective, 2021
Selected Interviews & Profiles
- Solar Energy is Cheaper Than Ever. So Why Does it Still Look the Same, with Marjan van Aubel, 2026
- Critical Thinking in the Vibe Coding Era, with Amit Patel, 2026
- On Loneliness, AI Companions, and the Rise of Tech Autocracy with Monika Jiang, 2024
- On Identity, Solidarity, & Parenting in Late Capitalism, with Claire Stapleton, 2023
- The Potential, the Pitfalls, and the Long Fight for Accessible Technology, with Prasanna Venkatesh, 2022
Speaking, Moderating, & Teaching
Speaking
- West x Northeast, Discomfort as a Catalyst and Compass, 2026
- Beyond Tellerand, Living Through an AI Takeover Without Losing Your Soul, 2026
- UXDX Seattle, 2026
- DesignUp, Storytelling in a Machine-Made World, 2025, 2022, 2018
- GUTS podcast, Imbalances in Tech, Industry and AI, 2025
- Experiential Destinations podcast, 2025
- Her Online Network, Paris, 2021
- Meta Design Conference, Tel Aviv, 2020
- Google Local Guides Summit, San Francisco, 2019
- LWD PDX, 2018
Moderating
- UNFINISHED Festival, Bucharest, Moderator, 2023-2024
- 12 Questions for Love with Sonya Renee Taylor, Topaz Adizes, 2024
Teaching
- Harbour.Space University, Adjunct Prof, Barcelona, 2024, 2022, 2019
- Workshop with Coursera Design Team, 2022
- Three-Day Workshop with Swiggy Design Team, Bangalore, 2019
- Google Computer Science Institute Mentor, Seattle, 2019
- Designing Interactive Systems, Hong Kong, 2018
- Girls Who Code Mentor, Seattle, 2018
Studies
- BFA Graphic Design, SCAD Savannah & Hong Kong, 2011
- Certificate in Modern Journalism, NYU, 2023
- Opinion Writing Workshop with Elizabeth Spiers, contributing writer at The New York Times, 2023
- Tin House Summer Writing Workshop, Creative Nonfiction with Nadia Owusu, author of Aftershocks, 2021
- Emotional Historians, Generative Poetry Workshop with Jon Sands, 2026
