My Work

Systems that hold.
Communities that move.

A selection of engagements where we helped organizations translate lived experience into policy, digital access into career opportunity, and complex systems into language people can act on.

Focus Digital Equity Enterprise Tech Facilitation Workforce Dev
Free Resource
Community Guide · 2026
Financial Crisis Literacy Guide
What to actually do when the bills exceed the income. A free, shame-free practical guide for wage workers with side hustles and nonprofit operators doing gig work to survive. Free to share.
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Toolkit · Sources Architecture Method™
Systems Intake & Mapping Toolkit
Four tools for finding out what's actually going on before you design anything: a client intake framework, a tech stack decision framework, a CRM fit checklist, and a map-your-system worksheet. Free to use and share.
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Case Studies
Rapid Build · Digital Infrastructure
Seven Days to Launch
A design agency's client needed a professional web presence before a high-profile media appearance. We had one week to design, build, and ship it.
Design agency partner · Independent consultancy founder

A design agency came to us with an urgent request from their client, a consultancy founder scheduled for a media interview with no professional site to point people to. We scoped a one-page site, built a custom template around the client's brand, and stayed available through the weekend to turn feedback around fast. The site was live in time for the interview, with a matching professional email setup ready to go.

Rapid Delivery Web Design Client Branding Agency Partnership
Key Outcomes
One-page site designed, built, and launched in 7 days
Site live in time for the founder's media appearance
Professional email accounts set up alongside the site
Delivered as a subcontractor to a design agency under a tight deadline
Digital Equity · Program Design
Building the Bridge
How a free digital literacy initiative became a tech career pipeline — and what happened to the people who walked through it.
i.c.stars Teachers Bureau · New Moms · GECDC · Urban Tech Academy

Most digital literacy programs treat access as the finish line. I built something different: a bridge model that connected where people actually were to where technology could take them — with trust, community, and a clear pathway forward. One participant came to class right after being jumped. He still came. He went on to pitch a startup to funders.

Program Management Curriculum Design Workforce Dev Chicago
Key Outcomes
200+ community members trained over 4 years
$25,000 contract secured with GECDC from free workshop relationship
i.c.moms pilot: 100% sparked interest in tech, 100% grew leadership skills
ABC7 Chicago news coverage · Pfizer-sponsored hackathon
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Enterprise Tech · Agile Transformation
The Infrastructure Nobody Built
How a junior QA analyst built the knowledge systems her peers needed to survive — and learned to end a three-team war by reading what was actually at stake.
ThoughtWorks · Southwest Airlines · Manheim Auto Auction

Developers at ThoughtWorks had coaches, mentors, and documentation. Quality Analysts had almost nothing. She built the knowledge infrastructure herself — then turned it into a shared resource that changed how QAs were supported and paid across the organization. As a Senior QA, she was brought in to untangle a three-team conflict at a Fortune 500 client during a company reorg, and pivoted from teaching methodology to helping teams survive.

Knowledge Systems Agile Transformation QA Strategy Org Change
Key Outcomes
Org-wide QA salary reclassification at ThoughtWorks
PMI Atlanta Project of the Year finalist (Manheim — with Coca-Cola & Home Depot)
Southwest Airlines QA teams unified, both teams retained through reorg
Black Girls CODE & CoderSpace workshops hosted at ThoughtWorks Chicago
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Nonprofit Systems · Data & Fundraising
Fixing the Donor Data
A youth development nonprofit's Salesforce database was too messy to fundraise from. I rebuilt it from the ground up.
i.c.stars

icstars had inaccurate, disorganized donor data in Salesforce — duplicates, missing information, inconsistent tagging — that made it impossible to track donor types or run targeted campaigns. I ran a full assessment, built a custom tagging system by donation frequency and gift history, consolidated duplicates, enriched donor profiles, and connected clean segmented lists to Mailchimp for targeted email campaigns.

Data Systems Salesforce Fundraising Ops Mailchimp
Key Outcomes
20% reduction in duplicate records
15% increase in email open rates
10% growth in monthly donations
Enhanced donor stewardship through better data
Education · Web & Enrollment
Rebuilding the Front Door
An alternative high school was losing students to its own enrollment website. We fixed the funnel, not just the design.
Community Youth Development Institute (CYDI), via Savvy Consulting & Communications

CYDI, an alternative high school serving underserved students, was seeing declining admissions because of a complex online enrollment process. I redesigned the site and simplified the admissions path as part of the team at Savvy Consulting & Communications.

Web Redesign Enrollment Funnel Education Subcontract Partnership

Recognition & Press

ABC7 Chicagoi.c.moms / Pfizer Hackathon Coverage
IT Brewi.c.stars Program Feature
PMI Atlanta — Project of the Year FinalistManheim / ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks Global Case StudyManheim Express

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