Bonus Professional Engagements

Speaking Engagements

• Independent UX Consulting Presentation to NGO’s
  Delivered a presentation to global humanitarian and advocacy organizations, including UNICEF, UNHCR, Save the Children, Greenpeace, and the Salvation Army.

• Build Initiative Conference (2023)
  UX Research Presenter

• Springboard UX Panel
  Featured as a panelist on the Student Success Stories panel, discussing career transitions and the impact of UX education.

Published Work

• Providing Early Childhood Special Education Services in Community-Based Settings
  March 2024
  Co-authored with Mina Hong, Emily Powers, and Rebecca Klein
  Published by Early Learning Lab
  A case study report sharing insights from six communities across the U.S.

• Supporting and Sustaining Leadership Pathways for Home Visitors of Color: A National Field Engagement
  Published in Maternal and Child Health Journal (MACI), Springer Journals, 2024
  Co-authored with Brown, M., Murphy, C., Kabera, C., et al.
  A research white paper in MACI academic journal exploring equity and leadership development in home visiting programs.

• Springboard Features

  • Student Success Story article

  • Featured in a student video interview and photo shoot for Springboard’s UX Career Track

Committees & Community Initiatives

• Start Early Committees

  • AI Committee: Founding Research Lead

  • Decarbonization Committee: Founding Team Member

  • ERG Committees: Pride Month & Disabilities Awareness

• UX Coffee Chat Group
  Initiated and led a biweekly UX discussion group fostering cross-role collaboration and exploration of UX trends, challenges, and philosophy. Regular participants included UX researchers, designers, learning experience designers (LXDs), and UX-curious team members.

Certifications

• Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Glass Leadership Fellowship Certificate (2023)

• Start Early Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIB) Certificate (2022)

• Springboard UX Career Track Certificate (2020)

Innovation & Challenge Participation

• OpenIDEO Challenge (2022)
  Participant – Social Impact Powered By Design Thinking

• Reimagining Fundraising Global Innovation Challenge (2022)

  Participant - A group of world’s leading international nonprofit organizations that have joined forces to speed up innovation and come up with new ways of generating income and raising funds.

• Women Hack the Crisis Hackathon (2020)
  Participant – Collaborative innovation for women-centered pandemic recovery

Template Development

Developed over 15 research and design templates at organization used across UX, Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams to improve workflow, ideation, and cross-functional collaboration.

Sample templates include:

• Problem Scoping

• Affinity Mapping

• Usability Testing

• User Journey Mapping

• Personas

• Recruitment materials

• User Stories

• Project Management Roadmapping

• Ideation Sessions

• Leadership Sense-making Workshops

• Prioritization Matrix

UX Research Presentation
Build Initiative Conference, a renowned early childhood conference
Los Angeles, 2023