White woman with light brown hair, glasses, and a blue and gold striped dress. She's smiling at the camera and leaning on one of her hands.

I'm an information designer & textile artist living in Brooklyn, NY.

I translate bureaucratic information in order to alter people’s relationships to power. I research “publicly accessible” information produced by bureaucracies and translate this information into new forms so that more people can access, engage with, and learn from it.

My goal is to prompt new ways to think critically about the structures around us and work towards future bureaucratic structures that support all people.

My work includes:

    • Information design

    • Plain language

    • Language access,

    • Accessibility

    • Usability testing

    • Weaving

    • Quilting

    • Collage

    • Play

    • Investigating metaphor

    • Building tools

I work on the same goal of increasing access to civic information in my role as Design Practice Lead at the Center for Civic Design, where I work with elections offices and civic engagement organizations to make elections easier to run, support innovation, and invite participation in elections.

In the world

2019

Crafting Democracy, Juilee Decker and Hinda Mandell, RIT Press

2024

How culturally relevant visual design can foster voter trust and engagement, AIGA Design Conference

2022

Weaving and Mending Workshop, Apocalypse Now, Harvard University

Guest Lecturer, Click, Touch, Move, School for Visual Arts

2019

Monson Arts Residency

2018

Commencement Speech, Rhode Island School of Design

Friends & collaborators

Patrick Hulse

Sophie Chien

Chantal Feitosa

Will Zhang

Sruti Suryanarayanan

Kira Schnitzler

Cathy Park

Lizzie Wright

Shabd Simon-Alexander

Radnyee Joshi