Hi! I’m a design director focused on equity, accessibility, and community. I’m based in Detroit and sometimes San Francisco. I believe in people, and I like to dance. I’m a seasoned leader, an enthusiastic team player, and an eternal student. Want to chat or see some case studies? Email me! ☻

Currently, I’m working with a small and mighty team at Inzovu building financial technology and a compelling brand for a branch of the Federal Farm Credit System and supporting a nearly 100-year-old aquarium in their journey toward greater accessibility for all visitors.

Previously, I was Director of Design for Artists & Labels at Bandcamp, where I spent six and a half years building a place for people who love independent music to directly support the people who make it. There, I led the launch of Bandcamp Live and directed several other key features. I also started and co-led cross-functional Accessibility, Design System, and Brand efforts, expanding the design organization’s expertise and influence across the company.

I founded and serve as Editor-in-Chief for Flower Press, an equitable publishing practice centering historically marginalized artists, authors, and practitioners. We publish books, zines, memoirs, poetry, newspapers, research, and more.

Lately, I’ve been recording a podcast about historical feuds between femmes, writing about writing, studying friendship, learning to play the harp, envisioning the future of music, and publishing a new book of poetry by Jacqueline Suskin.

In 2024, I joined Inzovu, a collective of stellar designers and researchers working to solve institutional and organizational challenges, led small sustainability-focused businesses through brand strategy processes, helped envision a new way to bring music to life, and opened myself up to new opportunities in spaces like climate resilience, education, music, arts & culture, tech equity, mental health, community wellness, and affordable housing.

In 2023, I helped guide brilliant teams at Bandcamp as they launched Listening Parties and Playlists, Flower Press published stunning new work, I completed a residency at Salmon Creek Farm, I taught myself to play piano (slowly, gingerly) in a Covid-induced haze, I made and released my first solo tunes, I wrote a joke book about birds, I drew so many hearts. I also learned a lot about grief, about the importance of good friendship, about myself. I rode my bicycle through France, I drove across the country, I went to a rodeo on the fourth of July, I saw fireworks and watched them fizzle out. I wrote poems, songs, reflections, investigated new paths.

In 2022, I collaborated with Cyrah Dardas to present Accessing Queer Sanctuary through Printed Media & Digital Realms at the Allied Media Conference. Flower Press published several ambitious works, including Care Manual by Kamra Hakim. We participated in the Brooklyn and Detroit Art Book Fairs, as well as several pop-ups. I also spent a month in Paris eating, resting, walking, looking, and gleaning inspiration from community infrastructure and independent bookstores.

In 2021, I learned to throw pots, mugs, bowls, and more at Ceramics School. Flower Press published nine new titles and participated in three art book fairs and numerous pop-up events. I also fell head over heels with roller skating (and, incidentally, fell head over heels a lot).

In 2020, I focused on supporting my neighbors, friends, and community. My team and I released Bandcamp Live. Flower Press grew, publishing media for liberation and joy, ranging from poetry to plants. You can read more here. Before the pandemic, I participated in the first inaugural Sou’wester Arts Week, a convening of 30 artists completing week-long residencies on the grounds of the historic Sou’wester Lodge.

In 2019, I started Flower Press. We debuted work at the Detroit Art Book Fair and the Chicago Art Book Fair and organized a small holiday fair for Ochre Bakery. At the beginning of the year, I worked with Blue Sky Center, Corbin LaMont, and two stellar local women to pilot a taco truck in New Cuyama, California. As winter turned to spring, my collective Homeboat and I did some renovation and community programming at the Yes! House in Granite Falls, Minnesota. Over the summer, Homeboat hosted Beach Blanket Babylon, a three-day summit on peripheral practice in Green River, Utah. Later, Christine Hucal and I put on Golem, a multi-sensory dinner of wild and foraged delights in a garden. In the fall, I participated in Ellipsis Open School, a community-based pedagogical residency situated in the Algarve.

In 2018, I got to know people and places with Homeboat in Southwest Minnesota, hosted The Changing Times in a one month residency which culminated in a newspaper issue about Detroit, completed a residency at The Sanctuary in Arcata, California, made dinner for thirty writers in a garden for Room Project, and cooked for fifty designers, researchers, organizers, and artists in a very large bubble at SPACE SPACE SPACE.

In 2017, I was a co-conspirator in Peace Meal Kitchen, a co-organizer of the Detroit Kite Festival, a co-founder of the Detroit Pop-up Alliance, and a collaborator with The Work Department.

In 2016, I completed Field Work, a research road trip focused on exploring community food systems and alternative community infrastructure across our great big nation. Along the way, I fell in love with Detroit and moved there.

Before that, I was a UX designer at Google making entertainment apps more useful, beautiful, and accessible to listen to, read, watch, and play for a billion people.

Meanwhile, I started Victory Kitchen, a community resource center focused on shared meal experiences, personal growth through creative expression, and direct community service.

Previously, I worked with nonprofits, NGOs, local businesses, educational institutions, arts organizations, cities, corporations, and bright individuals at Tomorrow Partners.

Before, after, and in between, I’ve done other things with design, food, friends, community, classrooms, and more.

Curious to read (and see!) some other things I’ve done?

In 2024, I joined Inzovu, a collective of stellar designers and researchers working to solve institutional and organizational challenges, led small sustainability-focused businesses through brand strategy processes, helped envision a new way to bring music to life, and opened myself up to new opportunities in spaces like climate resilience, education, music, arts & culture, tech equity, mental health, community wellness, and affordable housing.

In 2023, I helped guide brilliant teams at Bandcamp as they launched Listening Parties and Playlists, Flower Press published stunning new work, I completed a residency at Salmon Creek Farm, I taught myself to play piano (slowly, gingerly) in a Covid-induced haze, I made and released my first solo tunes, I wrote a joke book about birds, I drew so many hearts. I also learned a lot about grief, about the importance of good friendship, about myself. I rode my bicycle through France, I drove across the country, I went to a rodeo on the fourth of July, I saw fireworks and watched them fizzle out. I wrote poems, songs, reflections, investigated new paths.

In 2022, I collaborated with Cyrah Dardas to present Accessing Queer Sanctuary through Printed Media & Digital Realms at the Allied Media Conference. Flower Press published several ambitious works, including Care Manual by Kamra Hakim. We participated in the Brooklyn and Detroit Art Book Fairs, as well as several pop-ups. I also spent a month in Paris eating, resting, walking, looking, and gleaning inspiration from community infrastructure and independent bookstores.

In 2021, I learned to throw pots, mugs, bowls, and more at Ceramics School. Flower Press published nine new titles and participated in three art book fairs and numerous pop-up events. I also fell head over heels with roller skating (and, incidentally, fell head over heels a lot).

In 2020, I focused on supporting my neighbors, friends, and community. My team and I released Bandcamp Live. Flower Press grew, publishing media for liberation and joy, ranging from poetry to plants. You can read more here. Before the pandemic, I participated in the first inaugural Sou’wester Arts Week, a convening of 30 artists completing week-long residencies on the grounds of the historic Sou’wester Lodge.

In 2019, I started Flower Press. We debuted work at the Detroit Art Book Fair and the Chicago Art Book Fair and organized a small holiday fair for Ochre Bakery. At the beginning of the year, I worked with Blue Sky Center, Corbin LaMont, and two stellar local women to pilot a taco truck in New Cuyama, California. As winter turned to spring, my collective Homeboat and I did some renovation and community programming at the Yes! House in Granite Falls, Minnesota. Over the summer, Homeboat hosted Beach Blanket Babylon, a three-day summit on peripheral practice in Green River, Utah. Later, Christine Hucal and I put on Golem, a multi-sensory dinner of wild and foraged delights in a garden. In the fall, I participated in Ellipsis Open School, a community-based pedagogical residency situated in the Algarve.

In 2018, I got to know people and places with Homeboat in Southwest Minnesota, hosted The Changing Times in a one month residency which culminated in a newspaper issue about Detroit, completed a residency at The Sanctuary in Arcata, California, made dinner for thirty writers in a garden for Room Project, and cooked for fifty designers, researchers, organizers, and artists in a very large bubble at SPACE SPACE SPACE.

In 2017, I was a co-conspirator in Peace Meal Kitchen, a co-organizer of the Detroit Kite Festival, a co-founder of the Detroit Pop-up Alliance, and a collaborator with The Work Department.

In 2016, I completed Field Work, a research road trip focused on exploring community food systems and alternative community infrastructure across our great big nation. Along the way, I fell in love with Detroit and moved there.

Before that, I was a UX designer at Google making entertainment apps more useful, beautiful, and accessible to listen to, read, watch, and play for a billion people.

Meanwhile, I started Victory Kitchen, a community resource center focused on shared meal experiences, personal growth through creative expression, and direct community service.

Previously, I worked with nonprofits, NGOs, local businesses, educational institutions, arts organizations, cities, corporations, and bright individuals at Tomorrow Partners.

Before, after, and in between, I’ve done other things with design, food, friends, community, classrooms, and more.

Deep Strengths

Design direction
Leadership
Strategy
Brand direction
People management
User experience design
Product design
Service design
Environmental design
Print & collateral design

Systems thinking
Facilitation
Research
Creative & technical writing
Social practice
Illustration
Publishing
Community engagement
Consensus building
Neighboring

Areas of Interest

Climate resilience
Equitable technology
Mental health
Accessibility
Friendship
Music
Griefwork
Elder care

Public policy
Affordable housing
Arts & culture
Food justice
Placekeeping
Education
Urban planning
Nightlife studies

Selected Experience

Inzovu
Staff Designer
2024 - present

Flower Press
Founder
2019 - present

Bandcamp
Design Director
2021 - 2023
Interim Head of Design
2020 - 2021
Senior Designer
2017 - 2020

Google
User Experience Designer
2014 - 2016

See my C.V.