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Miss Represented is my senior capstone project; the work spanned over the course of a year and was completed in the spring of 2019. The end deliverable—an animated video—is a tool for teenagers to understand the importance of fiction and representation through
women in comic books.

I began working on graphics for the renovation of several schools in the Indian Hill School District in 2022, when I first joined MSA Design. This included Indian Hill Primary School, Indian Hill Elementary School, and Indian Hill Middle School. I created themes for our overall design narrative: earth, sky, and water. The graphics were catered to the student population at each school, growing in complexity as the students age. This gallery includes some of the murals, wall coverings, and signage I designed for the district.

A set of deliverables created for the the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Chest Wall Center, focused on pain management and The Hero’s Journey. Completed in the Fall of 2018.

Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library (CHPL) hired MSA Design to create the wayfinding for the newly renovated Main Library in downtown Cincinnati. I was responsible for creating the iconography used in the wayfinding system.

A collection of my illustration work, all drawn in Photoshop using a Wacom tablet. Many of these pieces are personal projects, a few are commissions from the award-winning author S.K. Ali, and several are works of fanart that are featured on the website of critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Shannon Chakraborty.

Animated video created in the Fall of 2018 for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute, as part of the Cancer Journey video library.

The Cincinnati Project engaged students and faculty at the University of Cincinnati in research projects examining the barriers to equity for women of color in Cincinnati. The information gathered was displayed in the form of a traveling exhibition, titled What Is and What Can Be. I had the privilege of being brought on by Dr. Stephanie Sadre-Orafai and my professor, Matt Wizinsky, for design support on the project. What Is and What Can Be was both an exhibition and a small book series, and while Matt created the exhibition, my main role was to design each of the books. The books served as takeaway publications with more extensive coverage of the information displayed in the exhibition.

Read more about it here.

In the winter of 2023, I was tasked with executing a video component for the 2023 MSA Design Holiday campaign. I animated all of the video except for 0:50–1:16, which was animated by a co-op student who was under my guidance. Scroll to see the printed advent calendar mailer that the video was created to support.

During the Fall of 2017, I took a collaborative studio about autonomous mobility for Graphic Communication Design and Industrial Design students, sponsored by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). Over the course of the studio, I was able to work alongside Industrial Designers and my peers within GRCD, participating in a variety of assignments and exercises that have helped me grow immensely as a designer and as an individual.

This project was an aim to market autonomous FCA vehicles of the future; essentially how to monetize each distinct brand that our class was tasked with designing. I helped create this video alongside four other students: Shelly Boylson, Alexis Jerome, Julia Lakemeinen, and Jared Wine.

I took on the task of storyboarding, creating assets for, and animating the video segments on Jeep, Fiat, and Dodge (1:34-2:15).

Find out more about the class here.

For my final Intro to Time-Based design project, in the spring of 2017, I created a title sequence for my narrative concept, Falcon Quest. 

I experimented heavily with vector illustrations for this project, using color palette and and passage of time to carry the viewer through the piece.