projects
Center for Humane Technology Youth Toolkit
Our social media environment is broken. Want a roadmap to help fix it?
Tasting notes: curriculum design, copywriting, collaboration, humane technology, systems change, project managementFollowing the massive success of the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, I was invited by the Center for Humane Technology (whose work is featured in the film) to translate the organization’s nascent educational opportunities into impact. I built out CHT’s offerings to include these resources that are now supporting young people around the globe in pushing for technology that operates for the common good and strengthens our capacity to tackle global challenges.
Integrating expertise across technology, mindfulness, and educational instruction, this interactive toolkit helps young people navigate — and push to change — a broken social media environment. It is designed for youth ages 13-25 but can be used by anyone to learn about these issues and to push for a humane, sustainable, and equitable future.
You can find the Youth Toolkit here.
826 New Orleans
Providing space and support for young writers to tell their stories.
Tasting notes: leadership, strategy, entrepreneurship, fundraising, program design, operational design826 New Orleans is the largest youth literacy nonprofit, and the only youth writing nonprofit, in New Orleans. The organization has served over 10,000 young New Orleans writers through programs that honor their voices as creative, complex, and powerful.
Beginning as a project in my classroom, I led our growth through the design of countless products and experiences, books, events, campaigns, retail activations, and youth programs. Together with hundreds of volunteers and a growing staff, we raised over a million dollars from contributed revenue, published hundreds of books, and became a crucial part of New Orleans’s education and cultural landscape. Learn more here.
Lagniappe: “Writ large: 826 New Orleans encourages kids to write” - September 26, 2018, The New Orleans Advocate
The New Orleans Haunting Supply Co.
Home is where the haunt is.
Tasting notes: brand design, art direction, product design, a creeping sense of uneaseThe New Orleans Haunting Supply Co. equips the ghostly denizens of the Crescent City with the materials necessary for a pleasurable posthumous day’s work: flickering lightbulbs, creaky floorboards, sleeping anchors, corporeal dust, boo in a can, and much more.
I led a team of local designers and young people in building an identity that energized and elevated a sense of creative possibility and activated an important new stream of revenue in the most haunted city in America. Our products are available at our storefront, online, and in stores across the city.
Lagniappe: Some of our students made a commercial for haunting grade slime. Watch it here.
