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WORK EXPERIENCE:

STUDIO MANAGER / PRODUCTION: Jessi Highet Studio Fall 2019 -  spring 2020 textile dying and finishing for fashion, studio management, ordering and purchasing, schedule coordination

DESIGNER/ASSISTANT GARDENER, Blue Dhalia Fall 2019 - Spring 2020

Graphic design, landscape renderings, field work

OUTREACH/EDUCATION COORDINATOR,  Currents New Media Festival Spring 2016 - Summer 2019

in school education programs throughout northern New Mexico, intern management/program creation, coordinator for at risk youth internship program

GRAPHIC DESIGN/ SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT:  Currents New Media Festival Spring 2016 - Fall 2017

google ad words, facebook, instagram, mailchimp. Graphic designs include newspaper and digital ad campaigns, show brochure and banners, signage and labels in exhibition.

ARTIST ASISTANT: Zahra Farmanfarmaian Spring 2015 - 2018

interior design, fabrication, archiving and preservation of heirloom art and antiques, personal assistant work

 

CO-PRODUCER: Steam Radio Syndicate August 2013 - 2014

Production manager for a live radio show featuring over 100 guests, website management, writing, meeting facilitation

 

DESIGNER: LIfeEdited/Graham Hill August 2012 - March 2013

Service design of a sharing system, research, business model generation, personal assistant 

 

DESIGN INTERN: Pilot-Projects Design Studio LLC SUMMER 2012

Project design and management for “Respect the Fountain” campaign, event planning, graphic design, grant writing.

 

WORK-STUDY: Shareable NY Conference with DESIS Lab and Parsons School of Design. FALL 2011

Event planning, content and graphic design for conference presentation

 

STUDIO ASSISTANT: Jim Osman SPRING 2011

video transcription, video editing, gallery installation

 

WRITER/ SCOUT: Overflow Magazine, SPRING 2011

Magazine distrubution, advertising sales scouting, culture scouting. Article: “Members Only” in Overflow issue 9.

 

 

AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN COMPETITION June 2012

Design Team Finalist, project displayed in the EDF Olympic pavillion at 2012 London olympics.

 

FIELD NOTES FROM THE GOWANUS Oct-Dec 2011

Artist in workshop & exhibition at the Sheila Johnson Design Center, in collaboration with The Canary Project

 

AMPLIFYING SOCIAL INNOVATION LOWER EAST SIDE Summer 2010

Partnership with IDEO, Parsons DESIS Lab, and The Rockefeller Foundation, exhibition in Henry St. Settlement Gallery

 

RENEWSCHOOL (New School sustainability club), 2009- 2012

Co-Chair, Member Improving sustainabilty efforts on campus, organized trip for 25 students to Power Shift

EDUCATION:

PARSONS NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN

2012 BFA: Integrated Design: Sustainability

Graduated with academic & departmental honors, class speaker and deans list

 

SKILLS, TRAINING, COURSEWORK:

TOOLS: Microsoft Word, Photoshop, In Design, Illustrator, Final Cut Pro, Sketch Up, Printing Press, Wordpress.com website design, analog photography, sewing, painting, welding, woodworking, and 3d printing

DESIGN SKILLS: Service and Systems Design, Design Thinking, Co-Creation, Living Lab, Graphic Design

COURSEWORK: Urban ecosystems, Design Thinking - tool kit design for communities, Life Cycle Analysis,  Design Methodology and strategy for business planning, Art and ecology, Facilitation, Community organization, Alternative Economies (sharing, collaborative consumption, barter, solidarity economics.)

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS: Advanced spanish speaker, tree care and planting, drivers licence.

 

REFERENCES:

Frank Ragano: Co-Executive Director of CURRENTS New Media connect@currentsnewmedia.org (phone number available upon request)

Marja Martin: Owner of Paloma Restaurant (freelance design/real estate client) marja@palomasantafe.com

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