Emerson Collective
Building solutions for progressive change
BandPage
Directing product design, getting acquired
Apple\MAL
Building the international digital creative team
Coming soon
Public Code
International collaboration on digital infrastructure
Field States
Co-creating strategic design for better public outcomes
Crushroom
Designing a social-first music experience
Design for Music
Art + animation for album releases
Emerson Collective
Designing, building and advising on solutions for digital storytelling, entrepreneurship and activism, to accelerate progressive change in education, health, immigration, the environment, and interconnected initiatives in social justice.
Creative Technologist
2017–Now
Web design
Info architecture
Digital strategy
Art direction
Holistic approaches to interconnected challenges
Led by Laurene Powell Jobs, Emerson Collective “invests in entrepreneurs and innovators driven by purpose and a sense of possibility, to expand opportunity and ensure the conditions for human flourishing”. They partner with and support individuals and organizations tackling complex challenges in education and economic mobility, immigration and journalism, health and the environment.
My Challenges
1
Improve digital capabilities and workflows in a highly reactive environment
2
Help a largely non-technical team understand and build digital tools and experiences
3
Explore and experiment while adhering to + building on the company’s voice and identity
Designing for Good
I focus on the digital side of Emerson’s diverse projects with the creative and storytelling studio for their many efforts and organizations. My work includes site design and development, animation, creative campaigns, branding exploration, story content, civic engagement toolkits, research paper design, and vetting technology and vendors.
Early on, I helped rethink emersoncollective.com, and plan a digital ecosystem enabling EC’s specialized teams to accelerate their work and share data and tools. Along the way, I’ve helped teams launch vibrant community spaces in East Palo Alto CA and Washington D.C., create economic opportunity in Chicago, build resources to help America's hungry find food during the pandemic, showcase culture and civic activism, inform the public about voting rights, increase social equity in startups, and accelerate investment in the environment.
EC Year in Review
The team’s work is so voluminous and varied that it’s hard to keep track, so it’s important to find ways to bring the threads together, and celebrate what was accomplished. I led design for, prototyped, and built this site to wrap up 2017.
Design
Art direction
Animation
Development
The Collective Series
While growing cultural tumult and the pandemic lockdown gripped the U.S., EC supported and celebrated a diverse array of storytellers, artists, and creators who brought people together. I helped create a virtual gallery showcasing rich culture and civic activism.
Design
Animation
Development
JR’s Migrants, Picnic across the border, Tecate, Mexico - USA, 2017
America’s Food Fund + GetFoodUSA
Food supply chains faltered fast when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, and millions already struggling to find their next meal needed help. We assembled America’s Food Fund to raise funds for and thank people distributing food and preparing meals across the country. We also built GetFoodUSA, the searchable directory of locations offering free food assistance to the public.
Design
Art direction
Development
Vendor management
Democracy Docket
As the U.S. elections system is manipulated to serve political ends, Marc Elias and his team fight to preserve our voting rights, and democracy. I designed a new home for Marc’s work, with new mapping and social tools that helped communicate complex issues to a broader audience.
Concept
Art direction
Design
Chicago CRED
CRED works with community leaders, like-minded organizations, and hundreds of young men and women to radically reduce gun violence and create hope. I designed, built and launched their original site, with their team in Chicago.
Design
Art direction
Development
Partner management
Forest fog in Mill Valley, CA, credit: Josh Felise
Inside Out + Dreamers
DACA and the DREAM Act helped ensure kids who had grown up in the USA could continue their lives here. When the program came under threat, we created campaigns to connect people with their representatives, thank people for their support, and amplify JR’s genius Inside Out community building project.
Art direction
Design
Technical development
EC Company Website
The organization’s own website brings a unique challenge—how to illuminate the many ways EC contributes to positive change, while inspiring and inviting people to join in. Over the years, I’ve worked with the team to complete and prototype rich new visual systems for the constantly evolving website.
Animation
Prototyping
Design
I’m lucky to be able to contribute in small ways to these communities, to help overcome challenges. There’s always more work to be done.
Emerson Collective
Building solutions forprogressive change
BandPage
Directing product design, getting acquired
Apple\MAL
Building the international digital creative team
Coming soon
Public Code
International collaboration on digital infrastructure
Field States
Co-creating strategic design for better public outcomes
Crushroom
Designing a social-first music experience
Music
Art + animation for album releases
Emerson Collective
Designing, building and advising on solutions for digital storytelling, entrepreneurship and activism, to accelerate progressive change in education, health, immigration, the environment, and interconnected initiatives in social justice.
Creative Technologist
2017–Now
Web design
Info architecture
Digital strategy
Art direction
Holistic approaches to interconnected challenges
Led by Laurene Powell Jobs, Emerson Collective “invests in entrepreneurs and innovators driven by purpose and a sense of possibility, to expand opportunity and ensure the conditions for human flourishing”. They partner with and support individuals and organizations tackling complex challenges in education and economic mobility, immigration and journalism, health and the environment.
My Challenges
1
Improve digital capabilities and workflows in a highly reactive environment
2
Help a largely non-technical team understand and build digital tools and experiences
3
Explore and experiment while adhering to + building on the company’s voice and identity
Designing for Good
I focus on the digital side of Emerson’s diverse projects with the creative and storytelling studio for their many efforts and organizations. My work includes site design and development, animation, creative campaigns, branding exploration, story content, civic engagement toolkits, research paper design, and vetting technology and vendors.
Early on, I helped rethink emersoncollective.com, and plan a digital ecosystem enabling EC’s specialized teams to accelerate their work and share data and tools. Along the way, I’ve helped teams launch vibrant community spaces in East Palo Alto CA and Washington D.C., create economic opportunity in Chicago, build resources to help America's hungry find food during the pandemic, showcase culture and civic activism, inform the public about voting rights, increase social equity in startups, and accelerate investment in the environment.
EC Year in Review
The team’s work is so voluminous and varied that it’s hard to keep track, so it’s important to find ways to bring the threads together, and celebrate what was accomplished. I led design for, prototyped, and built this site to wrap up 2017.
Design
Art direction
Animation
Development
The Collective Series
While growing cultural tumult and the pandemic lockdown gripped the U.S., EC supported and celebrated a diverse array of storytellers, artists, and creators who brought people together. I helped create a virtual gallery showcasing rich culture and civic activism.
Design
Animation
Development
JR’s Migrants, Picnic across the border, Tecate, Mexico - USA, 2017
America’s Food Fund + GetFoodUSA
Food supply chains faltered fast when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, and millions already struggling to find their next meal needed help. We assembled America’s Food Fund to raise funds for and thank people distributing food and preparing meals across the country. We also built GetFoodUSA, the searchable directory of locations offering free food assistance to the public.
Design
Art direction
Development
Vendor management
Democracy Docket
As the U.S. elections system is manipulated to serve political ends, Marc Elias and his team fight to preserve our voting rights, and democracy. I designed a new home for Marc’s work, with new mapping and social tools that helped communicate complex issues to a broader audience.
Concept
Art direction
Design
Chicago CRED
CRED works with community leaders, like-minded organizations, and hundreds of young men and women to radically reduce gun violence and create hope. I designed, built and launched their original site, with their team in Chicago.
Design
Art direction
Development
Partner management
Forest fog in Mill Valley, CA, credit: Josh Felise
Inside Out + Dreamers
DACA and the DREAM Act helped ensure kids who had grown up in the USA could continue their lives here. When the program came under threat, we created campaigns to connect people with their representatives, thank people for their support, and amplify JR’s genius Inside Out community building project.
Art direction
Design
Technical development
EC Company Website
The organization’s own website brings a unique challenge—how to illuminate the many ways EC contributes to positive change, while inspiring and inviting people to join in. Over the years, I’ve worked with the team to complete and prototype rich new visual systems for the constantly evolving website.
Animation
Prototyping
Design
I’m lucky to be able to contribute in small ways to these communities, to help overcome challenges. There’s always more work to be done.
Emerson Collective
Building solutions forprogressive change
BandPage
Directing product design, getting acquired
Apple\MAL
Building the international digital creative team
Coming soon
Public Code
International collaboration on digital infrastructure
Field States
Co-creating strategic design for better public outcomes
Crushroom
Designing a social-first music experience
Music
Art + animation for album releases
Emerson Collective
Designing, building and advising on solutions for digital storytelling, entrepreneurship and activism, to accelerate progressive change in education, health, immigration, the environment, and interconnected initiatives in social justice.
Creative Technologist
2017–Now
Web design
Info architecture
Digital strategy
Art direction
Holistic approaches to interconnected challenges
Led by Laurene Powell Jobs, Emerson Collective “invests in entrepreneurs and innovators driven by purpose and a sense of possibility, to expand opportunity and ensure the conditions for human flourishing”. They partner with and support individuals and organizations tackling complex challenges in education and economic mobility, immigration and journalism, health and the environment.
My Challenges
1
Improve digital capabilities and workflows in a highly reactive environment
2
Help a largely non-technical team understand and build digital tools and experiences
3
Explore and experiment while adhering to + building on the company’s voice and identity
Designing for Good
I focus on the digital side of Emerson’s diverse projects with the creative and storytelling studio for their many efforts and organizations. My work includes site design and development, animation, creative campaigns, branding exploration, story content, civic engagement toolkits, research paper design, and vetting technology and vendors.
Early on, I helped rethink emersoncollective.com, and plan a digital ecosystem enabling EC’s specialized teams to accelerate their work and share data and tools. Along the way, I’ve helped teams launch vibrant community spaces in East Palo Alto CA and Washington D.C., create economic opportunity in Chicago, build resources to help America's hungry find food during the pandemic, showcase culture and civic activism, inform the public about voting rights, increase social equity in startups, and accelerate investment in the environment.
EC Year in Review
The team’s work is so voluminous and varied that it’s hard to keep track, so it’s important to find ways to bring the threads together, and celebrate what was accomplished. I led design for, prototyped, and built this site to wrap up 2017.
Design
Art direction
Animation
Development
The Collective Series
While growing cultural tumult and the pandemic lockdown gripped the U.S., EC supported and celebrated a diverse array of storytellers, artists, and creators who brought people together. I helped create a virtual gallery showcasing rich culture and civic activism.
Design
Animation
Development
JR’s Migrants, Picnic across the border, Tecate, Mexico - USA, 2017
America’s Food Fund + GetFoodUSA
Food supply chains faltered fast when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, and millions already struggling to find their next meal needed help. We assembled America’s Food Fund to raise funds for and thank people distributing food and preparing meals across the country. We also built GetFoodUSA, the searchable directory of locations offering free food assistance to the public.
Design
Art direction
Development
Vendor management
Democracy Docket
As the U.S. elections system is manipulated to serve political ends, Marc Elias and his team fight to preserve our voting rights, and democracy. I designed a new home for Marc’s work, with new mapping and social tools that helped communicate complex issues to a broader audience.
Concept
Art direction
Design
Chicago CRED
CRED works with community leaders, like-minded organizations, and hundreds of young men and women to radically reduce gun violence and create hope. I designed, built and launched their original site, with their team in Chicago.
Design
Art direction
Development
Partner management
Forest fog in Mill Valley, CA, credit: Josh Felise
Inside Out + Dreamers
DACA and the DREAM Act helped ensure kids who had grown up in the USA could continue their lives here. When the program came under threat, we created campaigns to connect people with their representatives, thank people for their support, and amplify JR’s genius Inside Out community building project.
Art direction
Design
Technical development
EC Company Website
The core website brings a unique challenge—how to illuminate the many ways EC contributes to positive change, while inspiring and inviting people to join in. Above is a recent team effort to prototype new visual systems for the constantly evolving website.
Animation
Prototyping
Design
I’m lucky to be able to contribute in small ways to these communities, to help overcome challenges. There’s always more work to be done.
