I’ve always understood design as a way to hold space for stories, for systems, and for the contradictions that shape how people live together. My work lives at the intersection of visual communication, civic engagement, and collaborative research. Whether facilitating workshops with youth in Brazil or crafting engagement strategies for a city agency in New York, I’m driven by a core question: how do we design in ways that help people feel seen and heard?

I recently earned my Master of Fine Arts in Transdisciplinary Design from Parsons The New School, where my thesis became the foundation of my ongoing design practice. “If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere” explored what it means to belong in New York City, not through policy or planning documents, but through everyday acts of care, resistance, and participation. 
Through participatory mapping, zines, a mockumentary, and a civic field guide, I created tools that helped others reflect on where their voices feel acknowledged and rooted. It was both a personal inquiry (as someone not originally from New York) and a design investigation into public life, access, and care.

My earlier work in Brazil laid the foundation for my approach. I led weekly workshops with at-risk youth focused on identity, storytelling, and collective authorship. I also collaborated with a waste pickers’ cooperative to redesign their visual identity and website, using participatory methods that supported both self-representation and income generation. These experiences taught me to design with, not for, centering lived experience, care, and community voice.

In parallel, I’ve developed a strong visual practice. At the NYC Public Design Commission, I created toolkits, animations, and public-facing content to demystify complex government processes. I’ve also run a design studio serving 500+ international clients, and recently won first place in a public voting contest for a bedding pattern that led to a one-year licensing contract.

At the heart of it all, I am especially interested in how design can support learning, agency, and voice, particularly for those often excluded from traditional forms of power. 
I am always curious, context-sensitive, and driven by a desire to build spaces where people feel they belong enough to create change.