I'm a graphic designer from San Francisco, California (in case you haven't gathered that yet). I’m also an honors student pursuing a dual degree in design and data analytics at Syracuse University.
Let me tell you about a few of the cool things I've done so far.
I have… – designed and published two magazines while serving as Design Director of a major on-campus magazine for two (almost three) semesters (see: ugirl) – designed three apparel drops for a student-run dance organization that I’m also a member of (see: danceworks) – designed posters and billboards for a potentially OSCAR-nominated short film (see: her fight, his name) – designed an entire brand start to finish (see: loom) – designed a custom typeface (see: mosaic) – designed my custom portfolio in figma and framer (see: the page you are looking at right now) – designed an entire brand for my dad's 60th birthday party, including a website, drink menus, merch, and a video recap (see: renat60) – cleaned, sorted, scraped, and created more databases than you can imagine.
some of my other talents include:
– skiing black diamonds (west coast black diamonds) (just saying)
– solving the NYT crossword puzzle daily with impressive speed
– altering my clothes right before I’m going to wear them
– telling people what to do (politely and constructively)
– dancing (sometimes on stage, like for a performance, sometimes in my bedroom, like a teenage girl in an 80s movie)
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, School of Information Studies; Syracuse University— May 2027 Bachelor of Science: Applied Data Analytics & Visual Communications (Design) Renee Crown University Honors Program Dean’s List All Semesters Newhouse Leadership Scholar, Invest in Success Scholar
EXPERIENCE
Design Director — University Girl Magazine AUGUST 2024 – PRESENT SYRACUSE, NY Lead a team of designers through a four-draft process, providing specific, constructive critiques and 1-on-1 guidance on fundamental design tools Manage print deadlines and communicate with editors Create schedules, presentations and templates for designers
Apparel Chair— SU Danceworks APRIL 2024 – APRIL 2025 SYRACUSE, NY Brainstormed, designed and distributed three unique merch drops, each including at least three articles of clothing Collaborated with executive board members, managing differing opinions and finding effective solutions through compromise and understanding
Data Analyst— Programming for Data Analytics Course FALL 2024 SYRACUSE, NY Scraped, cleaned, filtered and organized data from IMDb to create a usable dataset of over 15,000 movies Designed a streamlit user interface, allowing users to filter through a pandas dataframe to discover top-rated movies by year, genre and length
Adventure Guide— Adventures in Writing Camp JUNE 2024 – JULY 2024 HILLSBOROUGH, CA Led groups of 20-30 elementary and middle school aged students in games, lessons and activities related to creative writing Resolved student conflicts, assisted teachers with classroom management and fostered a judgement-free environment
SKILLS
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Figma & Glyphs Mini Python, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript & Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft Word, Excel & Powerpoint, Google Docs, Sheets & Slides Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook Conversational Spanish
