Hello!

I am a multidisciplinary designer, collaborator and leader. I am currently Head of Brand and Visual Design at Khan Academy. I design and build beautiful products, better culture, and meaningful experiences.

I am passionate about contemporary art, social anthropology, storytelling, design, and journalism - and am always thrilled to discover new ways for them to overlap.

Things I do well

- Critical thinking and solutions design

- Building and nurturing good culture

- Storytelling and data tool creation

- Empathy / emotional intelligence

- Branding / brand development

- Website design & development

- Project Management

- Design Direction

- Visual design

- Critique

- UI/UX

Projects & Factoids

Though I design for a living, I do a lot of random things. I'm an artist, curator, journalism geek, and history lover. Some of the things below are accomplishments I'm proud of - others are just weird facts about me:

- I co-founded a Knight-funded online investigative newspaper for Santa Barbara called Mission & State

- I've been to 18 countries, and 49 US states (damn you, Rhode Island)

- I occasionally curate issue-oriented contemporary art exhibitions. The most recent two were AOKOA, and THINGS THAT TURN YOUR BRAINS TO MUSH

- I am a memberof the American Society for Cybernetics and have a passion for Social Anthropology

- I co-founded an artist-run contemporary art gallery in Downtown LA called Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles

- Life-long sci-fi nerd (TNG, BSG, etc etc)

- For 15 years, I surfed a waveski

- I am an Eagle Scout, who sent my medal back to protest the BSAs retrograde stances in the early aughts

- Served on the Board of Directors for the Miller-McCune Center for Public Policy & Research, publisher of Pacific Standard Magazine