I’ve worked in user experience design for 12 years, exercising professional grade empathy in order to design optimal paths through complexity.
Throughout my life, I have followed a variety of career paths, including roadie, motorcycle messenger, and user experience designer. All of my professional experiences have centered around people moving through life more smoothly: whether it’s a well designed user interface, a flawlessly engineered band performance, or a perfectly executed delivery route, I have again and again found myself drawn towards the optimization of the human experience.
Some of the most rewarding moments in my various careers have come while managing and mentoring those who worked under and alongside me. My absolute favorite people to teach are beginners because of the wide-open possibilities.
As a trans nonbinary person, some of my favorite reaches are for people who are leery of woo-woo, or cisgender people who are open and curious. I love working with men and masculine people. I LOVE working in boundary conditions, which is where evolution happens.
My facilitator training with Holistic Resistance taught me that discussion, learning, and connection are the way to dismantle racial, gender, and other disparities and develop lifelong relationships.
Two elements of my practice are to slow it down and to ask questions. We rarely find new answers if we try to stay in what we know, and racing to a solution skips over all of the juicy discoveries along the wandering way.
A list of my trainings is here