I craft strategic narratives and solutions from complex research data.

I'm a design researcher and visual designer who uses mixed methods research to develop solutions that positively impact people's everyday lives.

Work

A Robotic System to Enhance Plastic Waste Disposal at Brown University

GENERATIVE RESEARCH + SERVICE DESIGN
Climate • Technology

  • Academic labs generated 12 billion pounds of plastic waste in the year 2020. How might we develop sustainable practices to reduce the generation of plastic waste in this context.

WASH (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene) Behavior Change Curriculum for Ethiopian Schools

EVALUATIVE + GENERATIVE RESEARCH + DESIGN
Public Health • Behavior • Education

  • Poor hand-washing practices and waterborne illnesses are the leading cause of disease and death in children in Ethiopia. How might we use behavior change as a tool to tackle this?

Open IDEO Challenge: Health Economics for Time Bound Cancer Screening

RESEARCH SPRINT
Health Equity • Access

  • More than half of all cancer deaths are entirely preventable. What if more people could avoid or survive cancer through another means—by empowering them to take charge of their health?

Case Studies

Designing Humanitarian Aid Tools for Ukrainian Refugees in Poland (UNICEF)

GENERATIVE RESEARCH
Design for Emergency • Service Design

  • Millions of women and children have been fleeing the war in Ukraine since February 2022. How do we make sure that UNICEF’s Blue Dot facilities are equipped to meet the demands of this emergency?

More Work

Vaccine Acceptance Programming for Africa and Asia

GRAPHIC DESIGN + PUBLICATION
COVID-19 • Public Health

  • Boosting vaccine acceptance requires a strategy that addresses human behavior and social contexts, to overcome hesitancy and ensure broad, effective coverage

Enhancing Mental Health and Adolescent Sexual Health Services in Ghana (UNICEF)

EVALUATIVE RESEARCH & REPORT
Public Health Systems • ASRH

UNICEF’s Childhood Immunization Campaign

ILLUSTRATION (Lift and Tweaks)
Immunization • Public Health

  • Boosting vaccine acceptance requires a strategy that addresses human behavior and social contexts, to overcome hesitancy and ensure broad, effective coverage

  • How can we effectively address and overcome the stigma and accessibility barriers surrounding mental health and adolescent sexual health services in Ghana, to foster a more supportive and inclusive environment for adolescents in need of these services?

Experiments & Play

Future Scenario: A World Devoid of Bees, Four Millennia into the Future

SPECULATIVE THINKING & RESEARCH
Climate • Futures • Augmented Reality

  • Bee populations have been dwindling around the world, over the past decade. How do we sensitize communities with imaginative storytelling to illuminate how nature’s natural systems will be distorted if bees and other pollinators go extinct?

Learning to Create Fractals Using Parametric Functions with P5.js

CREATIVE CODING
Art • Play

  • What started out as a need to learn a tool for data visualization, became something I started fiddling around with, for the sheer joy of learning something from scratch

Breaking The Notion of a Book Being a Box— A Visual Experiment

PUBLICATION DESIGN
Writing • Documentation

  • From the synchronized pulsation of heartbeats to the intricate interplay with temporal awareness, this exhibition display sought to elucidate the profound connection between our physiological rhythm and the subjective flow of time.