Senior Product Designer · San Francisco
I've been designing and building for the web for 17 years–it’s what I love to do.
I grew up in New Orleans. At 15, after Hurricane Katrina exposed the failures of the levee system, I co-founded Levees.org with my mother to push back on misinformation surrounding the flood. That experience — making something impactful with some HTML and a domain name — shaped how I think about design and technology to this day. (The full story is told in an award-winning book, Words Whispered in Water.)
My career has been deliberately non-linear. I left college to join a startup, and have been an early team member at several others. I built a UX design curriculum that ranked #1 on Course Report and led a team of 45 developing and delivering software engineering curriculum. I’ve designed products that help people save money, find work, review medical bills, and reduce paper waste.
What ties it together isn’t a category or an industry — it’s a question I keep asking: how do we design systems that make people’s lives genuinely better, especially people who aren’t usually centered in product conversations?
Right now that question is pulling me toward climate adaptation and democratic approaches to AI development.
When I'm not designing or coding, I'm usually prepping produce from the farmer's market, trying to grow some myself, and finding excuses to share it with others.
Work
Design Engineer working on in-house products to support researchers. Designed a grant selection form that one researcher called "the best UI for choosing research support in the investment world."
Sole designer for a compliance platform helping companies operate across all 50 states. Led design for the rollout of the Tasks Framework — establishing consistent task and status components across the product — and redesigned the user dashboard around a location-first navigation model.
Created the brand and designed UX for an upskilling marketplace connecting employers with new talent in clean energy, HVAC/electric, and manufacturing industries.
Head of Academics. Created the UX Design curriculum, ranked #1 by Course Report. Led a team of 45, met daily with the executive team, and prepared materials for potential investors and acquirers as the company was acquired by SNHU.
Created the brand and designed onboarding for a medical bill review startup that corrected errors, caught overcharges, and negotiated with hospitals to save patients money.
Earlier: LinkedIn, TaskRabbit, SaveUp, Code for America.
Writing
Projects
Co-founded at 15 after Hurricane Katrina to hold engineers and government accountable for the levee failures. Subject of the book Words Whispered in Water.
A hyper-local news site surfacing construction projects, community events, and performances in New Orleans. Built with Ruby on Rails, Mapbox, and web scraping.
A free resource with practical tips for cutting down on physical junk mail. Evolved from Mel, a paid SMS-based unsubscribe service.
Turned calendars into public-facing event websites, giving organizations a home for in-person events without relying on Facebook. Built with Ruby on Rails, ICS, and Tailwind.
Provided portable phone chargers to unhoused people in SF's Tenderloin, funded by a LinkedIn Employee Transformation Grant.
Redesigned their website, converting a decade of content into concise, evergreen pages.