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School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
Boston, MA • Bachelor of Fine Arts • May 2025 • Studio Art, concentration in Graphic Arts
Activities: Designer For Melisma Magazine, The Tufts Observer, The Tufts Daily, and Currents
Education
Courses
Brand Strategy • Packaging design • Advanced Typography • Exhibition design • Environmental Graphic Design • Type as Image • Coding and Typography • Web Art • Graphic Design Toolbox • Introduction to Graphic Design • Creative Activism and Emerging technology • Digital Photography • Film Photography • Video editing
Software
Adobe InDesign • Adobe Photoshop • Adobe Illustrator • Adobe Acrobat • Adobe After Effects • Adobe Premiere Pro • Microsoft Office Suite • Glyphs 3 • Blender • Visual Studio Code • Vectorworks • Drawbot •. Adobe Lightroom • Adobe Bridge
Brand strategy and utilization • Print design • Editorial design • Exhibition design • Graphic production • Visual storytelling • Wayfinding/signage design • Storytelling with design • Design for social media and digital displays • Typography • Color theory • Image editing • Presentation Design • Design for Visual Accessibility • Image research • Written communication • Working with teams
Skills
Collaborated with a curator to determine the visual look and feel of a gallery.
Drafted/finished gallery graphics, exported files from InDesign with print specs for production.
Designed new donor attributions using house font and brand guidelines, 3D rendered a mock-up in Adobe Photoshop, and exported images for a presentation to future sponsors.
Updated exhibit graphics. Altered and resized archived files using Adobe Illustrator, printed mock-ups, matched colors, refined details, produced, and installed.
Exhibition Design Experience
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA • Graphic Design Intern • Jun - Aug 2024
Worked with a cross-functional team of curators, conservators, and the Education and Accessibility departments to develop a polished visual aesthetic for an exhibit that satisfied a wide range of requirements/limitations. Gave frequent presentations on design progress.
Refined the exhibit look and feel into print-ready graphics, labels, and title text using Adobe InDesign and Illustrator with guidance from the Design Studio.
Used the official style guide to develop visually accessible wayfinding strategies for museum display kiosks, wing menus, and accommodations signage based on a recent map redesign.
Used Vectorworks to dimension artifacts and architectural features of a detailed 3D exhibition model; drafted a schematic design package in sheet layers.
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Washington, DC • Exhibitions/Graphic Design Intern • May - Aug 2023
Design retail and employment ads in Adobe Illustrator to elevate clientele’s branding.
Finalize ad designs with client feedback, export PDFs with crop marks, and assemble cards onto spreads for the print paper.
Flow text into InDesign to typeset articles. Place and convert images to print-compatible CMYK color model in Photoshop, package files, and save to a shared server.
Seven Days
Burlington, VT (remote) • Design Intern • May - Aug 2024
Editorial Design Experience
Initiated and organized a project to redesign the Media Kit in order to increase ad revenue.
Generated over $13,000 from non-Tufts University clients within the year following publication, surpassing previous years.
Communicated with editorial sections to compile article content on print nights, sequenced a template in InDesign, and assisted layout editors in typesetting and formatting the paper.
Finalized layout, checked to ensure correct stylings and elimination of typographical errors, exported PDFs with color outputs, sent print order, uploaded files to server, and e-published.
The Tufts Daily
Medford, MA • Production Director • May 2023 - May 2024
Tufts Department of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy
Medford, MA • Graphic Designer • Oct 2022 - May 2023
Detailed a succinct visual strategy and color scheme for advertising departmental conferences and regional events. Created posters, sponsor banners, and event wayfinding.
Designed informational graphics that provided step-by-step instructions for participants in graduate research studies, compiled files into a video tutorial using Adobe Premiere Pro.
Improved visual navigability of microsites that promoted departmental research projects through front-end using CSS and HTML.
Marketing Design Experience
The Nature Conservancy
Remote • Design Intern • Jun - Aug 2025
Set typographical stylings and master pages in InDesign, flowed book manuscripts and final copy into documents to typeset front, body, and back matter for publication.
With an author’s input, designed a book cover using Photoshop and Illustrator.
Created an engaging series of web banners and social media ads to promote publications.
Green Writers Press
Brattleboro, VT (remote) • Book Design Intern • Jun - Sep 2023
Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center
Windsor, VT • Graphic Design Intern • Jun - Aug 2021
Using hospital style guide, developed a visual campaign and series of flyers advertising seasonal fundraising events for the Mt. Ascutney Hospital Auxiliary in InDesign.
Worked with a team input to refine graphics before exporting print-ready files.
Revitalized the design of recruitment brochures for volunteer programs servicing seniors.
Volunteer Experience
SMFA Sustainability Committee
Boston, MA • Graphic Designer • Oct 2022 - May 2024
AVA Gallery
Lebanon, NH • Volunteer • Feb 2018 - Sep 2019