A front-end engineer and interdisciplinary artist who cares about design, data, and storytelling.
For the last several years I've built intuitive web applications and advocated for inclusive design. In my free time, I also love to draw minimalist illustrations of the outdoors and build interactive, participatory websites.
Before focusing on all that, I went to school for creative writing — and honed my skills as a journalist and essayist for magazines that include Yoga International, Paper Darts, American Craft, and Monkeybicycle plus the anthology The Way We Sleep.
I don't write as frequently, or attempt to make quite as many bad jokes anymore. But I still love imagining ways in which storytelling can meaningfully shape the web.
An irreverent, animated guide to making pourover coffee
Animation, storytelling, and whimsy for a modern menagerie
Miscellaneous experiments from past projects
How much can you abstract a flower before it's unrecognizeable?
In 2019 I gave my first Javascript-focused lightning talk, at Javascript MN. Shortly afterwards a friend coaxed me into planning a much longer, hour-long talk at Mpls Jr Devs — again all about how to get a little bit weird with scroll-based animation. My slides for both talks are included below.
I love it when technical writing is personal and silly and more concerned with making others feel comfortable — and even hyped — rather than asserting the author as an authority.
