Professional Services
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Creative Facilitation
I run workshops to help teams spark radical imagination and apply creative problem solving techniques to their work.
Visioning
Strategic planning
Design thinking training
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Public Engagement
I collaborate across disciplines to build engagement strategies, design co-creation tools, run events, and synthesize data into compelling, actionable plans.
Engagement planning
Workshop facilitation
Pop-up events
Interactive digital tools
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Change Management
I support leaders in navigating change within their teams by facilitating conversations, developing communications and training, and tracking the process.
Change readiness assessment
Educational material development (trainings, videos, web content, etc.)
Change management plans and playbooks
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Design Strategy
Trained as an industrial designer, I support design processes with user research to gather insights, identify opportunities, and test ideas.
Qualitative research
Journey mapping
User testing
Project Samples
Grand River and 14th — Community Engagement
Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (2022—Present)
Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS) is leading the development of a social justice hub in Detroit at the corner of Grand River Blvd and 14th St. Envisioned as a center for restorative justice, local businesses, and community spaces, the development embodies the kind of infrastructure needed in a world without mass incarceration.
In my role as Community Engagement Manager, I coordinate the Community Activators Board—a seven-member group of Detroiters guiding the interim activations on the site and stewarding the project on the ground. This has included organizing pop-up events, coordinating a youth design-build project, and managing ongoing communications.
Sunrise Mall Specific Plan — Community Engagement
City of Citrus Heights (2019—2021)
Gensler worked with the City of Citrus Heights to create a Specific Plan—a planning document to guide redevelopment of a declining mall at the heart of the City. In my role as Community Engagement Lead, I led the development of the engagement strategy and the design of activities including community workshops, listening sessions, online presence, and virtual engagement.
Creating a memorable project brand was a key element of the engagement. “Sunrise Tomorrow: Reimagine the Heart of Citrus Heights” became the public face of the project—a more welcoming invitation than the official name “Sunrise Mall Specific Plan and EIR.”
The first community workshop in February 2020 drew 300+ participants together at the mall to co-design a vision for the site. Groups used provided game cards, stickers, and templates to build their ideal development, which helped identify community priorities for the plan. In 2020, the engagement strategy to focus on remote activities, including a virtual charrette, interactive website, and physical mailers.
Current & Previous Clients
Selected clients while working as a Design Strategist / Project Manager at Gensler (2015-2022) and
Community Engagement Manager at Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (2022-present)
Public Sector
City of Lake Elsinore
City of Citrus Heights
City of Oakland
Los Angeles County
LA Metro
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Town of Gilbert, AZ
Private Sector
Microsoft
Nike
Amazon
SAP
Netflix
Seaport San Diego
Nonprofit
Liberty Community Land Trust
Barrios Unidos Santa Cruz
Lifting TAY
Education
Arizona State University Local
Da Vinci Schools
UC San Diego
CSU Chancellor’s Office