Experience
Instagram designer The Washington Post
April 2021 – present
Develop new visual identity for The Post on Instagram and Twitter; Work with managers and developer to update social card generator used across newsroom; Design daily Instagram posts, as well as photo illustrations for Daily 202 newsletter; Experiment with storytelling approaches; Work with editors to adapt headlines for social audiences
Designer The Washington Post
July 2019 – April 2021
Created photo illustrations; Produced content for breaking news on tight turnaround; Designed, animated for The Lily’s twice-weekly Snapchat Discover edition; Commissioned artwork for the national app; Created illustrations for projects throughout newsroom; Curated, wrote captions for team Instagram account
Design Intern Sports Illustrated
June 2018 – Aug. 2018; Freelance Aug. 2018 – June 2019
Animated illustrations for digital presentation of stories; Designed for print magazine; Created infographics; Worked on deadline to create magazine cover animations for social media; Developed branding for podcast series
Design Intern The Boston Globe
May 2017 – Aug. 2017
Built newspaper and magazine pages, including daily sections and features; Art directed for newspaper and magazine; Created photo illustrations and weekly sports infographics for the newspaper
Presentation Director The Daily Orange
Dec. 2016 – Dec. 2017
Art directed for entire newspaper; Coordinated with illustrators, photographers, editors to produce art; Managed team of six designers as well as photo and illustration staffs; Designed guides, covers and special editions of the paper; Conducted nightly meetings with visual team and management staff
Special Projects Designer The Daily Orange
Dec. 2017 – May 2018
Designed, illustrated and animated for the paper’s weekly Snapchat Discover story; Designed print and digital advertisements; Created gifs and illustrations to accompany stories on social media; Developed brand identities for fundraising events
Education
Syracuse University
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications • 2019
B.S. Graphic Design • Cum laude
Minors in English; Information Management and Technology
Renée Crown Honors Program
Awards
Award of Excellence, WP Select
Award of Excellence, WP Select *
Award of Excellence, The Lily: Snap *
SND Best of Digital Design 2020
Silver Medal in Digital Redesign *
55th SPD Awards 2020
SND Marshall Matlock/Designer of the Year Award
Newhouse Awards 2019
Prize in Motion Graphics
Newhouse Awards 2019
Student to Watch 2019
Graphic Design USA
Honorable Mention, Front Page Design
MSU SND Contest 2019
Silver in Motion Graphics
2019 Graphis New Talent Annual
Prize in Motion Graphics
Newhouse Awards 2018
Second Place, Sports Design
MSU SND Contest 2018
Scholarship Recipient 2017
SND Foundation
* Won as a team
Skills
Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere Pro, XD); Conversational Spanish; Final Cut Pro; Glyphs; HTML & CSS; InVision; Méthode CMS; Microsoft Office Suite; Photo illustration; Sketch