Implementing Design as a Driver for Big Ideas, Insights and Solutions
Teaching, Course Development, and Advising. Course planning and oversight for approximately 50 classes a Quarter, engagement with Los Angeles universities and purposed focused companies and individuals.
TED Circles
TED Circles is an open platform of small groups that meet for conversations about ideas.
Part of core team that produced a three-month ‘insight sprint’ with weekly meetings to find the need and developed and ran workshops at TED Summit. program official launches January 2020

Finding the Big Ideas
And helping them grow leveraging the diverse megaphones of UCLA
Role: Speaker Coach, co-curator, branding, UCLA license holder

Curation and Art Direction: Cover Series Designed
to Spark Lifelong learning
Starting with the design Great Paul Rand in 1990, the series continues under my curation celebrating curiosity, learning and encourages engagement, through the lens of designers.

Reframing the Role Of Law Enforcement to Build Resilience and Self Confidence
Direct Engagement with Children to build the tools needed to lead lives free from bullying, violence and substance abuse
Projects: Data Management Builds, Websites, Design

Lifting Children into Supportive Environments, Every One of Them
Over a Decade of Design and Strategy Work with two of the Leading Childrens’s Foundations in Southern California, Hathaway-Sycamores and Vista Del Mar
Slightly Obsessed with the Maker Movement
And how it is reshaping the design field.
Role: I create one off maker projects for talks at universities, and I do builds for events with arduinos, makey makey’s, electronics hacks and CNC builds.
