Habitat for Humanity East Bay/Silicon Valley

  • Annual Reports

  • Event Branding: Cycle of Hope including logo, signage, tents, t-shirts, jerseys, digital marketing, postcards, posters, banners, etc.

  • Program Branding: Renew Alameda County, Habitat Community Capital (CDFI)

  • Event Branding: Jimmy Carter Work Project (including multiple sub-events), Women’s Leadership Build, Build-A-Thon

  • Project Brochures: Central Commons, Esperanza Place

  • Milestone Branding: 20th Anniversary, 30th Anniversary

  • Full organization brand overhaul including overall brand colors and type, look and feel, brand guide, flyer templates, organizational brochure, folder, presentation template,

  • Yearly holiday card

  • Social Impact Study

  • Economic Impact Study (included complete rewrite)

 

Voice of WItness

  • Rebrand including brand colors and type, look and feel, and style guide

  • Annual Report

  • Event Branding, invitation, and program

 

Gynuity

  • Rebrand including brand colors and type, look and feel, and style guide

  • Strategic Plan

  • Model Graphic

  • Full website redesign https://gynuity.org/

  • Coalition Toolkit

  • Mobile-optimized guide to medical abortion during COVID-19

 

Habitat Greater San Francisco

  • Yearly Annual Reports

  • Strategic Plan

  • Development Cases for Support, multiple locations

  • ReStore graphics, signage, truck wrap

 

Other Nonprofits

  • East Bay College Fund: Annual Report

  • Super Stars Literacy: Annual Reports

  • Oakland Community Organizations: Annual Reports, Newsletters, Website, Brochure, Branding

  • Oakland Ready to Learn: Branding, Brochure

  • UCSF Women’s Global Health Initiative: Event Invitations and various media ads, multiple years

 

Businesses

  • Great Place to Work: Conference and Event Design, Reports, Internal Messaging, Marketing Brochures

  • Blog Talk Radio: Educational Program icons and graphics

  • Riverbed: Internal marketing for educational programs

  • Gordon+Greineder: Branding, website, and collateral for architecture firm

  • Stephen Arnn: website for architecture firm

  • SKINutritious: logo, branding, package design

  • Ardiana SF: Restaurant website https://www.ardianasf.com/

  • Gialina: Restaurant website https://www.gialina.com/

  • Colette Mercier: Branding and SquareSpace website https://www.resiliencetherapysanfrancisco.com/

  • Emily Wilska: Branding for The Organized Life and In Our Cups

  • Speed of Joy: Logo

Merging my background in nonprofits with decades of design experience.

For the past two decades, I’ve worked with all kinds of clients. But it’s the place where my two worlds intersect—design and social good—that I find the most gratifying work.

After studying both Political Economy and Social Relations, my first career was in the nonprofit world, managing statewide AmeriCorps grants for a large nonprofit. During that time, I returned to school for a design degree, and launched my business shortly after.

No matter what form your work takes—an individual practice, a nonprofit organization, a business with a cause—I help you find the essence of what you do and why it matters

I Speak Both Nonprofit and Design

I’ve worked either in or with nonprofits for nearly 30 years. My undergraduate degrees are in sociology, economics, and politics—so I have a deep understanding of the landscape in which you do your work. And while I love to make beautiful design, it’s more important to elevate the voice of your organization, its mission, and its impact. The design has to serve the message, and I have a unique background that enables me to understand your mission and message more than most designers.

Both a Partner. And Part of the Team.

Because I think and speak from both a nonprofit and design perspective, I can help you see new ways to communicate your message. Whether that’s through refining copy and enhancing your voice, suggesting new approaches, or modifying strategy when the landscape changes, I build collaborative relationships to help you grow.

Design, clear + dynamic

Design communicates. Function over form.

But it also has to be dynamic, to engage the audience—often multiple audiences—and make them feel a part of your mission and organization’s impact. It has to move them. Make them feel. And most importantly, spur them to action.

From organizational to event branding, annual reports, publications, marketing materials, presentations, infographics, content editing, website consulting … Whatever the medium, I elevate your voice into a dynamic and clear representation of your work.

About Me / About My Work

Brief descriptions under each with a lead in to the About me page and the portfolio page, and then host this full content on those respective pages

I Speak Both Nonprofit and Design

I’ve worked either in or with nonprofits for nearly 30 years. My undergraduate degrees are in sociology, economics, and politics—so I have a deep understanding of the landscape in which you do your work. And while I love to make beautiful design, it’s more important to elevate the voice of your organization, its mission, and its impact. The design has to serve the message, and I have a unique background that enables me to understand your mission and message more than most designers.

Both a Partner. And Part of the Team.

Because I think and speak from both a nonprofit and design perspective, I can help you see new ways to communicate your message. Whether that’s through refining copy and enhancing your voice, suggesting new approaches, or modifying strategy when the landscape changes, I build collaborative relationships to help you grow.