My Work

Austin.gov

The residents of the City of Austin deserve easy-to-use, accessible tools to connect them with city services. Government websites have different goals than e-commerce and non-profit and need creative strategies to achieve them securely. As content strategy lead, I developed those strategies and design solutions for making city services resident-focused with a team of service designers, user experience designers, developers, and subject matter experts.

Storytelling for the trees

When Austin’s Community Tree Preservation Division asked me to expand the community reach of our forestry grant, I wondered: how do people connect to nature when they don’t think of themselves as treehuggers? I opened a pop-up museum for the public to curate their own nature stories and hosted an adult story slam for tree tales.

Hearing tree stories from new voices invigorated our staff and inspired them to start new conversations about the future of Austin’s forests.

High Line Education

I created the Artist-Scientist after-school program for High Line Park in New York City to show the ways that both disciplines share creativity and structure to solve problems and imagine new possibilities.

When I realized that the students of our local public schools had no way to meet and learn from their older neighbors, I connected teachers with staff in nearby naturally-occurring retirement communities (NORCs) to create Neighborhood Buddies. First graders interviewed elders to record an oral history of Chelsea with help from fourth grade camera operators.

Mensana Project

The Mensana Project was a solo experiment in outdoor education and web design made to connect more families with nearby nature in Austin, Texas.