Client Work
In my work with clients, both nonprofit and commercial, I utilize as highly a collaborative approach as is appropriate and sought by the people I serve. I believe that my job as an illustrator and designer is to meet clients where they are in terms of design experience, language, and comfort level. I bring my educational background into meetings, both as a leader and a participant, in order to communicate my process as effectively as possible.
YWCA Western New York
Promotional MaterialsLead Designer
November 2022 - Current
Annual Appeal 2022



Brochures and Promotional Materials





Illustrations commemorating the victims of the Buffalo Tops shooting
Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation
50th Anniversary LogoLead Designer
February 2023 - March 2023
To celebrate 50 years of Shalem, I was brought in to create a new logo that represented a transition into the future. I was given a Vision Statement as well as a poem written to capture the hopes Shalem had for their next 50 years.
I worked closely with their team starting from the most broad directions a new logo could move in and over a few weeks together we came to a logo that we all felt celebrated the work Shalem had done and the work they will do.

Original Logo

Logo we developed
Buffalo/Western New York Children,
Youth, and Family Task Force
From-Scratch Branding Design and Presentation MaterialsLead Designer
May 2022 - August 2022
I was hired to do a from-scratch brand build for a new initiative in the Buffalo, NY whose goal was to invite and engage community members, funders, policy-makers, and advocates to join a task force which would work using collective impact to enact positive change in the systems that serve children, youth, and families in the community.
My goals as lead designer were to create a cohesive brand and visual language that would effectively communicate the values and personality of this initiative; progressive, accessible, forward-thinking, and inclusive.
The team and I discussed issues facing various systems in the Buffalo community and the idea of a fabric whose threads are unwoven and tangled and that a properly woven fabric needs all threads to work together to create a strong, functional cloth.
We created an invitation email which included a video that would be sent to community members in order to spark interest:
Software used: Adobe Photoshop and AfterEffects
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Stationery Design
Social Media Flier for Event








La Cocina VA
(now Kitchen of Purpose)Mural in Cafe Space
Lead Designer
May 2021 - July 2021
I was tasked with creating a mural that would liven up the space in a new restaurant that also housed an incubator kitchen and culinary education nonprofit. There were also smaller parts of the space that presented opportunities to make architecture like support pillars or short walls more interesting. The space had opened during the pandemic and did not show patrons the amazing work happening behind the scenes of the modest-seeming cafe.
I led the creative team (the CEO, the Director of Operations, and myself) through the creative process by collaboratively sifting through themes, color, and image until we agreed on a united vision. Then I got to work creating sketches and drafts of imagery in the space before finally we decided on a final layout.
In addition to designing this mural, I also executed it in the space. This included supply orders, budgets, and paintchip matching. The painting took over 24 work hours to complete.

Basic sketch concept chosen from 3 options

Proposed designs (bottom design eventually chosen)






Pillar Design


Arlington Presbyterian Church
New Logo, IllustrationsIllustrator/ Design Consultant
June 2014 - June 2020
Over the course of several years, I created various social media imagery for Arlington Presbyterian Church, including formatting for Facebook and Instagram.
During a transitional period, I also redesigned their logo, shown below:









Chapter spot illustrations
Social Media Graphics









Womanly Magazine
IllustrationsIllustrator
Spring 2021
As part of a partnership with the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Womanly Magazine commissioned my classmates and I to create illustrations to accompany educational articles about hypertension (high blood pressure).

