Summary
Creative, strategy-driven Graphic Designer & Illustrator with extensive experience leading brand evolution, visual identity, and integrated campaign concepts across marketing and communications. Proven track record of collaborating across cross-functional teams to solve complex visual challenges and elevate institutional storytelling. Skilled at bridging big-picture brand strategy with hands-on digital, print, and environmental execution to drive audience engagement and strengthen community connection.
Experience
Graphic Designer, WBUR
present
Serves as Graphic Designer within WBUR’s Marketing and Communications department, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to elevate the station’s visual identity across digital, print, and environmental platforms. Balances high-level brand building with hands-on creative execution, utilizing custom illustration to translate complex editorial ideas, live event initiatives, and public media programming into engaging, accessible storytelling assets. From promotional print campaigns and digital marketing suites to event collateral and merchandise, delivers cohesive visual solutions that strengthen audience connection and drive community engagement.
Comic Artist, Sampan Newspaper
present
Serves as the resident comic artist for Sampan Newspaper, writing, illustrating, and publishing original comic strips that explore the humor, nuances, and relatable moments of family life and intergenerational dynamics. Manages the full creative lifecycle for each installment—from story conceptualization and scriptwriting to hand-drawn illustration and final digital prep—delivering engaging narrative storytelling that resonates with the community and enriches the publication’s cultural and lifestyle coverage.
Designer & Illustrator, Mimoco
2006-2015
Versatile, hands-on design leader who advanced from Graphic Designer & Illustrator to Senior Designer and Design Director within a fast-paced start-up environment. Directed and executed end-to-end creative operations across every facet of the business—spanning brand identity, web design, trade show exhibits, promotional merchandise, and product packaging.
Partners & Client List
CBS, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, DC Comics, Disney, Ford, Hasbro, HBO, Redmond Channel Partner Magazine, Sanrio, Schylling Toys, Star Wars, tokidoki, Uglydolls, FriendsWithYou
Education
Massachusetts College of Art & Design
BFA, Communication Design (Illustration)
Projects
“Call and Response: Illustration in Uncertain Times,” Pao Arts Gallery
2023
Artwork featured among illustrations and graphic designs by seven local AAPI artists who used their craft to speak to this complicated moment.
Creative Covid-19 Communications, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
2021
During the COVID-19 pandemic, MAPC’s Arts & Culture and Public Health teams partnered with local artists and designers to produce creative, culturally resonant communications about COVID-19 and vaccinations.
MAPC hired nine artists and artist groups to create materials encouraging under-served communities to get vaccinated. The artists produced a series of communications materials in 2021 and many updated their materials in 2022 to reflect updated COVID safety advice, including getting booster shots and wearing high-quality masks.