projects
Large-scale editorial projects spanning multiple platforms and disciplines at The Washington Post.
web development, digital design, art direction, print design, social design
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.
🏆 Pulitzer Prize finalist
🏆 Recognized by Society for News Design
web development, digital design, art direction, print design, social design
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
🏆 First place from APSE Honors
🏆 Recognized by Society for News Design
web development, digital design, art direction, print design, social design, project management
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.
🏆 Recognized by Society for News Design
Some notes and behind the scenes from the planning process
web development, digital design, art and video direction, photo and video editing
My role: One of the successes of this story was being involved early in the process which allowed me to help shape ideas for the visual direction and storytelling of the page. My early ideas included working with video to get drone footage so we could to annotate Alysa Liu’s choreography. We were also able to get images from the choreographer’s notebook and I came up with an idea to combine the notebook photos and videos to visualize Liu’s program.
I built scrolly elements, created overlay visuals in Photoshop, figured out the pacing of the story and visuals and selected the best photos and videos to best tell the story.
web development, digital design, story structure, social design
My role: This was a quick-turn visual story I put together with a reporter two days ahead of the National Championship game. We wanted to come up with a visual way to show fans excitement without doing a standard text story.
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.
web development, digital design, print design, social design, graphics editing
web development, digital design, graphics editing, social design
web development, digital design, AI2HTML, print design, social design
web development, digital design, art direction, print design, social design
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.
🏆 Recognized by Society for News Design
digital design, art direction, print design, social design
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.
🏆 Recognized by Society for News Design
PRINT DESIGN
I was the lead sports designer at The Washington Post. I 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 designed, managed and planned 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.