I'm a visual designer, artist, and writer helping people see a sustainable, beautiful future.
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My specialty is world-building. I love the process of partnering with my clients to design comprehensive brand identities - teasing out the distinctive feel; finding cohesion between vision and voice; creating a home that inspires trust and shared vision.
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I bring an editor’s eye to everything I design, finding structure and clarity in the narrative before bringing it to life with polish and flair.
Web design
Flyers and 1/2 pagers
Reports
Social graphics
Slide decks
Email
Stationery
Swag
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I specialize in taking complicated, technical, longwinded, fluffy, or otherwise unruly writing and turning it into engaging prose with equal parts substance and flair.
Op eds
Whitepapers
Reports
Toolkits
Published research
Grant and bid writing
Proofreading and editing
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I’m an accomplished artist and illustrator in a range of physical and digital media. I love searching for the aesthetic that resonates most deeply with your work and your community.
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Good video marries visual and verbal storytelling, rhythm and color, information and entertainment - it’s a delicious challenge. I handle end-to-end video production, from script and storyboard to final touches.
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I co-create experiences that connect and inspire, leading from initial brand development through to wayfinding and stage/scenic graphics as well as video, marketing, app design support and photography direction.
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Being able to see and understand data from all angles is key to effective work. But all too often, data visualizations makes viewers work too hard and renders data inaccessible. I help sort through the mess to find a clear, step-by-step story.
Bio
I am co-founder and Creative Director of Constructive, an independent nonprofit reshaping how we collaborate to advance clean energy and climate solutions. We do this by creating high trust convenings, powered by world-class experience design, facilitation, and analysis, that link together to drive real-world outcomes. I lead visual design, storytelling, branding, marketing, and communications across our internal operations and partner programs.
Previously I was a Senior Consultant at the US Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office, where I supported the cross-office Pathways to Liftoff initiative and co-created the Deploy summits, developing the brand and managing creative production of all our digital, print, and environmental graphics.
As a freelance visual designer I’ve worked with clients in clean energy, international and urban development, biotech, venture capital, climate, social services, and a writer who keeps asking me to do weird things like “draw an ant that looks like it’s about to F you up!”
Before freelancing I led development and communications at an amazing nonprofit urban design firm called Kounkuey Design Initiative. While I worked there I co-authored the World Bank Handbook for Gender Inclusive Planning and Design as well as a research paper on community-led infrastructure in Kibera, Kenya.
I'm a lifelong multimedia artist, constantly fascinated by the textures and forms found in the natural world - a product of my upbringing in the gorgeous Dartmoor National Park in southwest England. Watercolor was my first love but nowadays I’m obsessed with printmaking!
We live in an ever more fragmented, alienated world, and I know that’s not the right direction to go in. My impulse is to weave together, to make things coherent, to create gravity. Painters often talk of the “push and pull” — it’s the same with everything I do. I like nothing better than taking an amorphous problem or value proposition and pushing/pulling until it coalesces into a form, a story, that connects with us.
If you’re interested in working together or would like to see my resume, please get in touch!