This summer, I joined The Texas Tribune as their Design Fellow. In this role, I pushed the boundaries of what I knew as design, collaborating with the Marketing, Events, Product, and Engineering teams to design for change. A great deal of my time with The Tribune, however, was spent designing for The Texas Tribune Festival.

Held in downtown Austin in early September, The Texas Tribune Festival is a platform for politicians, policymakers, journalists, and other media personalities to talk on the relevant topics of today, as well as for attendees to interact with and exchange ideas with others.

As design fellow, I created graphics across mediums for the Festival, assisted in the implementation of a wayfinding system for Open Congress, and led design research efforts at The Texas Tribune Festival, conducting ethnography, interviewing attendees, and journey mapping user experience to identify areas for improving guest engagement and cross-pollination of ideas.