Writing Samples

outline and imagery from my article, Activating Qualitative Data and Building Equitable Visualizations from the September 2023 Society for Technical Communication’s Intercom magazine, Volume 70, Issue 5

I am always open to writing collaborations. Please reach out if you have a project in mind!

I was accepted to and participated in the following two writing fellowships:

The following list includes links to my published writing samples (a book review, a visual essay, an industry article, conference proceedings, and MFA thesis):

  • upcoming in 2025, work in progress: a perspective essay book contribution on design anthropology 

  • Book Review of Design Social Change by Lesley-Ann Noel
    August 2024
    Design and Culture (The Journal of the Design Studies Forum published through Taylor & Francis Online)
    DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2024.2386749

  • Reconstructing Ephemeral Experiences with Design Artifacts: An Autobiographical Visual Essay
    © 2023
    ISBN(s) 978-1-60785-730-3 (paper) 978-1-60785-889-8 (open access)
    https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14495980
    This 15-page peer-reviewed visual essay (pages 233–247) that I wrote and designed was published in a special issue of Dialogue by the AIGA Design Educators Community through Michigan Publishing. I was invited to contribute to this issue of the journal as an AIGA Design Educators Community Design + Writing Fellow. My visual essay combines physical collage-making with digital design and storytelling.

  • Activating Qualitative Data and Building Equitable Visualizations
    September 2023 Society for Technical Communication’s Intercom magazine, Volume 70, Issue 5
    This 2,500-word peer-reviewed article that I wrote was approved to be published in the Society for Technical Communication’s Intercom magazine. I was invited to propose a contribution by Intercom guest editors Amanda Horton and Jackie Damrau for the issue on “Information Visualization in Technical Communication.” Intercom magazine is the number one magazine for technical communication professionals worldwide. View Article

  • The Graphic Enneagram June 2023
    This 5-page 2023 UCDA Design Education Summit post-conference proceedings pedagogy paper that I wrote and designed was published online after the conference. My abstract was peer-reviewed for acceptance prior to the conference.

  • Exploring Undergraduate Design Research June 2022
    This 12-page 2022 UCDA Design Education Summit post-conference proceedings pedagogy paper that I wrote and designed was published online after the conference. My abstract was peer-reviewed for acceptance prior to the conference. The paper shares work from creating and teaching the Design Research course at UNC Charlotte.

  • Spero: a digital application design to help connect retirees and refugees 2018
    Digital Product Design Thesis Project completed at the University of Florida: View Paper | View Project