My career has taken me across enterprise organizations, higher education, and founder-led initiatives. Each environment has strengthened a different part of how I lead today.

Early in my career, I worked as a graphic designer developing brand identities and marketing initiatives. That work taught me to connect strategy with visual expression and to see every touchpoint as part of a larger experience.

Later, as an Assistant Professor—and then tenured Associate Professor—of Graphic Design, I led curriculum and program development, mentored emerging designers, and built community partnerships that brought real client work into the classroom. That experience deepened my understanding of leadership as the work of creating clarity, building capability, and giving others room to grow.

At Baker Tilly, I have helped lead design and contributed to brand and creative strategy within a large national organization, working in close partnership with creative leadership. My work has spanned creative direction, team development, brand stewardship, and the systems that help high-volume work remain cohesive.

Across each of these roles, the focus has remained consistent: strengthen the idea, support the people behind it, and build a clear path from vision to execution.

The work that excites me most sits at the intersection of brand strategy, creative direction, people leadership, and systems building. I’m especially drawn to roles where I can help an organization clarify what it wants to express, raise the quality of the work, strengthen the team, and improve how ideas move into the world.

I’m especially interested in organizations that define success more broadly than financial performance and contribute something meaningful beyond themselves. That impact can take many forms; what matters to me is helping shape work that creates value for people, communities, or the wider world.

AI-aided design has fundamentally shifted how I approach creative work. I’m excited to build AI-driven creative frameworks that expand exploration, make strategic and creative direction more reusable, and help teams work with greater range and clarity. I want to remain at the leading edge of how AI is shaping creative practice—not as a substitute for human talent, but as a way to support and amplify it—while keeping human judgment, brand integrity, and craft at the center.

I live in the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado with my husband, three dogs, and two cats. Much of our free time is spent outside—hiking local trails, floating the river, skiing, or heading out for ATV rides in the mountains.

We recently bought a home in the mountains that has become our ongoing project. We’ve been steadily improving the property inside and out—starting with exterior work that needed immediate attention, including fencing and fire mitigation. We’re also planning larger interior renovations, including updates to the kitchen and bathroom and longer-term structural improvements.