I'm an information designer & textile artist living in Brooklyn, NY.
I translate bureaucratic information to help alter people’s relationships to power. I research “publicly accessible” information produced by bureaucracies and translate this information into new forms so that more people can access, engage with, and learn from it.
My goal is to prompt new ways to think critically about the structures around us and work towards future bureaucratic structures that support all people.
My work includes:
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Information design
Plain language
Language access,
Accessibility
Usability testing
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Weaving
Quilting
Collage
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Play
Investigating metaphor
Building tools
I currently work on the same goal of increasing access to civic information in my role as Design Lead at the Center for Civic Design, where I work alongside elections offices and civic engagement organizations to make elections easier to run, support innovation, and encourage broader participation.
In the world
2025
Portrait, Design Makes Sense
2024
How culturally relevant visual design can foster voter trust and engagement, AIGA Design Conference
2022
Weaving and Mending Workshop, Apocalypse Now, Harvard University
Guest Lecturer, Click, Touch, Move, School for Visual Arts
2019
Crafting Democracy, Juilee Decker and Hinda Mandell, RIT Press
2018
Commencement Speech, Rhode Island School of Design
Friends & collaborators
Cathy Park
Shabd Simon-Alexander
Radnyee Joshi