Sustainability
I constantly look at the world through a lens of “how can we improve this system?” I ask questions, I learn, and I analyze the systems that drive exploitative environmental and societal cycles. Below are select writings exhibiting my analyses and recommendations.
Providing guidance on the timing, messaging, and partnership considerations necessary to run a successful food waste awareness week.
Faux policy brief exploring the idea of genetic engineering to reduce vanilla theft from Madagascar farms.
Recommendations for wasted food reduction for the City of Boulder. Covers common practices and new systems-based interventions.
Deep dive into the history and many consequences of US and Canadian dairy policy. Ends with recommendations for improving US dairy policy.
Marketing plan with recommendations for 2020 marketing and communications actions based on currently low resources.
Analysis of our current way of talking about food waste and how this discourse could be institutionalizing and supporting the problem.
Design
Provided great customer service, quick responses, and collaborative edits to design logos, websites, and graphics that best communicated organization and event brands.
Logos
Web Design
I started my web design career undercover. My web design partner and I were told by CORA Food Pantry that they wanted to go with a professional firm. We decided to design a great website and surprise them with it. Years later, it’s still the one they use and I get to do my design in the open now.
The ordered, engaging design of the website creates an accessible interface for CORA’s many stakeholders – clients, volunteers, and donors.
I designed the website using Adobe Illustrator and my partner, Alijah O’Connor, coded the site.
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Bottom Front Page
Example Inner Page
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Bottom Front Page
Example Inner Page
My team and I designed Boulder’s Food Waste Awareness Week (FWAW) to be an event that emphasized the great local efforts to reduce wasted food and the systemic, multi-faceted forces that lead to wasted food. I designed a webpage to bring these goals together.
I designed images using Illustrator and gave design suggestions to the web programmer.
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Partners & Video
Daily Themes
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Partners & Video
Daily Themes
The Boulder Housing Coalition (BHC) needed a new, easy-to-use, more integrated website. I made just that.
It is integrated with a newly implemented CRM – that I set up – a new form system, and a new newsletter. I worked with staff, residents, and board members to ensure it fills all the needs of the organization.
Will be online October 2020
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Bottom Front Page
Example House Page
Example Resource Page
Application Page
Donate Page
Member Login Page
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Bottom Front Page
Example House Page
Example Resource Page
Application Page
Donate Page
Member Login Page
Graphics
Materials used to advertise and market organizations and events. Made with Adobe Illustrator or Canva.
Video
Made from the joy of learning and communicating. Though my video production began as a hobby, I am loving how video concisely portrays information in an entertaining way. All made with Adobe Premier, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate, or a combination.
Food Waste Non-Profits
I worked with seven local organizations to film this video. Used for Food Waste Awareness Week social media for people to learn about the issue of wasted food and the amazing organizations working on solving the problem.
Food Rescue Hype Video
While working on the previous video, I offered to create in-house videos for all of the organizations. Here is the video I made the Boulder JCC so that they could convince catering companies to use the Copia program.
A Community Without Hunger
As my CORA Food Pantry program was wrapping up for the Summer, I wanted to use my newfound skills in video production to create a video for my food pantry. They accepted my proposal and I created this video that highlights the main actions and hopes of the food pantry.
Talking Food Waste: Moving the Conversation Forward - Highlights Video
While coordinating Food Waste Awareness Week, I knew I wanted to host an event that moved the conversation beyond the status quo. I invited experts from around the nation to talk about what’s next.
At the time, I was unaware of the city video production policies and was too late to use city resources. In the few days before the event, I borrowed cameras and audio equipment to record the event myself. Many, many hours of editing later, I produced this 17 minute highlight video from two and half hour event.