Early on I was an artist—drawing, painting, and crafting my way through life. In my high school years I joined Artstart as an apprentice artist where I learned to paint murals around Sonoma County, and other works of art for sale.
When I moved on to college I studies graphic design and poured myself into the fundamentals of visual communication. I later graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor of Science.
To support myself through school I worked as a web developer. I learned how to code websites from scratch and then build WordPress themes. I worked for marketing agencies who served the dental, health, hospitality, and winery industries.
I joined the tech industry out in the San Francisco Bay Area where both my skills as a front-end web developer and visual designer could be used together.
Product design attracted me for several reasons. One in particular was how research could be leveraged to eliminate subjective rumination. As a UX Designer I was able to maintain my roots in creativity as I worked through complicated problems, while using the science of data to inform critical decisions.
I am attracted to roles and spaces that sit between worlds—art and science, or data and heart—and love to find the connection points between them.
