Well hello there!

I started my career as a graphic designer and art director, learning how typography, color, hierarchy, and storytelling shape the way people understand information.

Then I became a teacher.

I spent seven years teaching middle school computer science and digital arts, which meant I also spent seven years figuring out how people learn. I saw where students got stuck, what made something suddenly make sense, and how the way information is presented can determine whether someone understands it at all.

That changed the way I design.

Since then, every role I've taken has really been another version of the same challenge: How do you take something complicated and make it feel simple, effortless, intuitive?

Sometimes that's a brand. Sometimes it's a product, a website, a course, a visual system, an illustration, or an entire experience.

It's also what led me to build Stickity. I originally created it because I wanted a better way to visually communicate with my own students. Other teachers started asking for it, then schools did, and eventually it grew into a product with more than a million installs and users in all 50 states and 60+ countries.

Building Stickity gave me the chance to work across pretty much every part of bringing a product to life: brand, product strategy, UX/UI, customer research, visual systems, web design, marketing, prototyping, testing, and figuring out what to build next.

I've helped build an education startup from the ground up, led company-wide rebrands, redesigned both live and online learning experiences, illustrated curriculum, crafted motion graphics and animations, and created design systems and resources used by educators around the world.

I love strategy, but I really love making things. I still want to open Illustrator, build the prototype, move things around until the layout works, write the copy, test the idea, and figure out why something isn't working.