WORK
Here’s some of my favorite work.
I design across platforms for online, print and social at The Washington Post.
grievance games
Pulitzer Prize finalist
Digital design and development
Art direction
Print design
Social design
Published: 2024
My role: I brainstormed visual ideas and collaborated with a team of reporters and editors, researched and hired an artist, commissioned five illustrations, created digital design mockups using Figma, presented ideas to editors, built and developed online presentation, created homepage and social assets, adapted illustrations for video content, adapted design for print and social platforms
More about this series:
Washington Post columnist Jerry Brewer has used athletics to chronicle the successes and failings of American society throughout his three decades as a sportswriter. Grievance Games is an in-depth look at how the promise of sports as a national unifier has buckled under the pressures of grievance and division.
Read the full series:
How grievance splintered American sports
The contested legacy of Jackie Robinson
ovechkin record
Digital design and development
Art direction
Print design
Social design
Published: 2025
My role: I began planning this coverage months before the record was broken. I knew we would want fresh visuals for this line of coverage, so I proposed a photoshoot with Alex Ovechkin. Once that was on the books, I helped come up with the look for the shoot.
I reviewed and researched all of The Washington Post’s previous coverage of Alex Ovechkin and started brainstorming visual approaches for telling the story. After developing several mockups and presenting concepts to editors, we decided to combine two ideas — a goal tracker and a timeline highlighting our best Ovechkin coverage over the years — into a single experience rather than creating separate pages.
The page launched when he was 10 goals away from the record and I created a plan to update it after each game in which he scored.
I collaborated with editors and teams across the newsroom to ensure alignment around our record-breaking coverage. I predesigned poster pages, multiple A1 print options for any night the record could be broken, Instagram graphics for goals 20–1 and the record-breaking moment, and supporting homepage assets. In addition, I helped design and promote the “Ovechkin Career” commemorative book, which was made available for subscribers to purchase the night the record was broken.
Some notes and behind the scenes from the planning process
black coaches
Digital design and development
Art direction
Print design
Social design
Published: 2022
My role: I came up with the look for the “Black Out” series and carried it throughout 13 stories, including the video project on the coaches voices. This project required collaboration across graphics, video, audio and several editors.
I came up with different concepts to visualize these stories, created mockups using Figma, presented ideas to stakeholders, built interactive stories, worked with engineering and dev on video presentation, created social and promotional assets
More about this series:
This football season, The Washington Post is examining the NFL’s decades-long failure to equitably promote Black coaches to top jobs despite the multibillion-dollar league being fueled by Black players. There were 13 stories in this series.
Read more from the series:
mlb paint
Digital design and development
Art direction
Print design
Social design
Published: 2023
Illustrations by NBA Paint
The anonymous “NBA Paint” Twitter account was getting a lot of buzz online with his live NBA drawings during games.
My role: I reached out to “NBA Paint” to see if he would be interested in a baseball project ahead of the 2023 season. To my surprise, he was! Once we got buy-in, I worked with MLB reporter Chelsea Janes and came up with “storylines” for all 32 MLB teams and let “NBA Paint” run wild with his drawings. I mocked up the web presentation in Figma, developed the webpage and created social and promotional assets.
This project was a fun way to tell a story we have done every year and got a lot of attention on social media.
indiana fans
Digital design and development
Social design
Published: 2026
This was a quick-turn visual story I put together with reporter Jesse Dougherty in two days ahead of the National Championship game. We thought this would be an exciting, social-friendly way to tell the story of the crazy Indiana season in a different way.
My role: I came up with the look and helped structure this story, created visual assets and text message animations, developed the webpage, repurposed assets for social and homepage promotion
alysa liu
Digital design and development
Published: 2026
My role: I brainstormed visual ideas and collaborated with reporters, video and editors, created digital design several mockups using Figma, created overlay visuals in Photoshop, selected photos and videos to best tell story, presented ideas to editors, built and developed online presentation, created homepage and social assets
Fun fact: I used my 12 years of competitive figure skating knowledge to identify the moves and it really helped when going through photo and video assets
the nine
Digital design and development
Art direction
Print design
Social design
Published: 2021
My role: I hired artist Desiree Kelly to make my vision for this story come to life. I art directed nine mural-style illustrations and worked with a photo editor to find reference photos for each of the athletes.
I designed a “landing page” to house all nine of these stories on the website and came up with a look for all of the individual pages. I created social assets for Twitter and Instagram.
caps drawings
Digital design
Art direction
Social design
Published: 2019
Illustrations by Washington Capitals players
My role: Ahead of the season I created a “worksheet” to hand out to the players on the Caps with prompts such as “Draw yourself” and “What’s your favorite memory?.”
I then took the results and created a visual story for the web with some of the best results. I also created social assets that we shared on Twitter and Instagram all season long.
MORE PRINT DESIGN
I am the lead sports designer at The Washington Post. I have designed almost every section in my nine years at The Post.
PHOTO ART DIRECTION
In my time at The Post, I have art directed many photoshoots for both sports and the food section.
SOCIAL
I design, manage and plan Instagram content for the @postsports account. I’ve helped this account turn from a passion project to part of the sports department’s daily workflow.
Compared to 2023, the total reach of @postsports expanded to 2.8 million users; the average audience reach increased 480 percent; our follower engagement rate increased 831 percent; our total impressions increased 1,712 percent.