experience
Senior Designer
HBO Max (Warner Bros. Discovery)
New York, New York
February 2025 – Present
Assist in the development of the global brand guidelines for one of the country’s top streaming services after an exciting rebrand announcement. Champion brand consistency across all creative executions and maintain toolkits and brand guidelines site. Design custom, highly confidential decks for HBO Max executives’ internal and external meetings. Create event collateral, including custom decks, welcome and navigational signage, menus, and branded apparel.
Senior Designer
HGTV Magazine & Food Network Magazine (Hearst)
New York, New York
October 2022 – December 2024
Sketched, conceptualized and designed stories and graphics across print and digital for two top-10 best-selling magazines with 1M+ subscribers each. Collaborated closely with editors to advance their storytelling through my designs. Created photo collages, illustrations, GIFs and videos for print and online stories, social media and weekly newsletters. Managed many layouts in multiple issues at once and solved problems throughout production to keep stories on deadline. Art directed photoshoots, creating mock-ups and communicating with prop stylists, food stylists and photographers on set.
Junior Brand Designer
BuzzFeed Inc.
New York, New York
March 2021 – October 2022
Sat on a team dedicated to shaping narratives for a publisher that attracts more than 121 million unique visitors monthly and reaches 30 percent of the total digital population. Worked to develop a consistent brand identity across a growing portfolio of brands like BuzzFeed News, Tasty, Complex and HuffPost. Designed a wide range of marketing materials, including brand toolkits, custom creative pitches and a website refresh.
Graphic Designer
University of Missouri Student Affairs — Marketing
Columbia, Missouri
April 2017 – March 2021
Designed posters, coupons, booklets, in-store signage and online advertisements. Produced content for all five University of Missouri system stores, MizzouRec, Campus Dining Services and Residence Halls Association. Utilized social media and email software systems. Awarded first place for design campaign in the Association of College Unions - International Region II graphics competition.
Creative Director
Vox Magazine
Columbia, Missouri
January 2020 – December 2020
Took lead creative role in the planning and execution of a monthly regional magazine. Designed department pages and feature packages under tight deadlines and created art or scheduled photography for print, digital and social channels. Served as the teaching assistant for a magazine design capstone course and managed a design staff of seven.
Design Studio Intern
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History
Washington, D.C.
Summer 2020
Developed the graphic identity for an upcoming exhibit that addresses historic truth-telling through typographic exploration, color palette decisions, title and label design and case graphics. Organized and collaboratively designed the first-ever internal museum newsletter to be sent out to staff.
Content Intern
Mediablaze Group
London, England
Summer 2019
Completed a variety of projects while interning abroad and navigating working in a new culture. Edited commercials for Aftershokz headphones, took on a social media community manager role for Volvo UK, created content for Mediablaze social channels and designed graphics for clients like Shiseido and Speedo.
Deputy Production Manager
The Maneater Newspaper
Columbia, Missouri
August 2016 – February 2017
Designed weekly college newspaper and worked closely with editor-in-chief, production editors and photographers to create relevant, effective layouts for stories and an overall visually appealing newspaper. Designs won state-wide competition for feature layout.
achievements
Hearst SPARK Women Executive Board
2024
Selected to join the five-person executive board tasked with leading SPARK, Hearst's employee resource group for women. Organize large-scale "skill series" events, book clubs, and annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month programming. Help manage and create graphics for the group's Instagram page.
BuzzFeed Inc. Womxn Employee Resource Group Co-Lead
2022
Selected to co-lead BuzzFeed’s Womxn ERG, a group of over 300 employees that aims to advocate for and provide resources and support for women across the organization.
BuzzFeed Emerging Leader
2021
Hand-picked by BuzzFeed upper management to undergo an intensive, two-month-long educational program for junior-level employees showing strong leadership potential.
Kappa Tau Alpha Member
2020
Invited to join a national honor society in journalism and mass communication for the top ten percent of graduating journalism students across the nation.
Mizzou '39 Recipient
2020
Received award that recognizes 39 graduating seniors for their leadership, service and academic achievement.
Design Teaching Assistant
2020
Selected as the teaching assistant for a Strategic Communication Design & Visuals course and the Advanced Magazine Design capstone for the Missouri School of Journalism.
Mortar Board Tap
2020
Tapped into Mortar Board, one of Mizzou’s six secret societies which recognizes individuals for their scholarship, leadership and service.
Outstanding Junior Award
2019
Awarded the Outstanding Junior Award sponsored by Mizzou Honors College for involvement on campus and in community.
Walter Williams Scholar
2016
Named a Walter Williams Scholar, the highest honor for incoming journalism majors at Mizzou.
Representative for Student Journalists
2016
Sole student chosen to represent high school journalists in Illinois to testify in front of an Illinois House Judiciary Committee in support of House Bill 5902, a bill to increase the First-Amendment rights of highschool journalists.