More about me!
Below are fun projects and experiences I've had that I believe have shaped me into the designer I am today! This is the place to learn more about me and my work!
Honors & Awards
This past year, I had the privilege and honor to have received Auburn University CADC Outstanding Graduate Student Award of 2025. I got the opportunity to receive said award at the Annual CADC Awards Ceremony. I had received this award through selection promoted by my Professors after completing my Master's in Industrial Design.
To the left is my family who came to support me in receiving my award.
Within my time at Graduate school I entered my design for La Estella Blue, my Gibson Guitar student project, into Auburn MakersFest of 2024. I was honored to have won Best Custom Design Entry of 2024.
For our Undergraduate Senior Thesis Sponsored studio with ABM, I had the privilege to have received Second Best Overall Design within our class.
Graduate Design Thesis
"Empowering Creativity: Harnessing the Potential of Industrial Design Students with ADHD."
The purpose of this project is to leverage the college-aged individual with diagnosed ADHD to best find their niche procedure within the design process by utilizing strategic management solutions in the design curriculum. By the creation of a new adaptable design method–through the combining of existing design methodology– these students can leverage their confidence and gain insight into how to work with their ADHD abilities during the creative segment of the design process. They will also be able to better overcome average ADHD challenges such as ‘Time Blindness’ and ‘Task Paralysis’. The conceptualization of ADHD is still quite new, being only a little over 50+ years old as an accepted learning disability. Framing ADHD as a possible superpower in a creative field such as Industrial Design through this approach will assist in leveraging creativity, learning helpful self-management strategies, and allowing minds to flow within different design process modules. The primary approach is through task switching so one will be better equipped to work within a given time frame without abstraction by organizing their thoughts and applying their unique process to any design project within the Industrial Design classroom. Therefore, this project intends to bridge the gap between Industrial Design students with ADHD and Industrial Design methodology by creating a supplemental productive working routine before students with ADHD leave school for the workforce.​
Creating a systematic approach for Design Students with ADHD through the use of combined methodologies. Chapter 3 introduces the Spiral Staircase Approach. The Spiral staircase Approach also referred to as the SPR.S.A. uses worksheets and a visual graphics to guide those with ADHD in utilizing their strengths when approaching the design process.
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Just like a spiral staircase, a designer may find the stucture of a design process stabilizing but given the allowance to go back a step or two before continuing gives a freedom to revise and edit when new ideas come to flourish while creating. The goal here is the emphasis that even though one can go backwards they still must eventually continue down the stairs to their exit and finished design. The steps to the SPR.S.A. allow students just that. With controlled checkpoints along the way to guide the student every step and average road block one may experience as a student designer with ADHD.
With special thank you to my Committee Chair Professor Benjamin Bush, and Committee Members: Professor Christopher Arnold, Professor Richard Britnell, and Dr. Leslie Cordie. Also, a great thanks to Head of the Industrial Design Graduate department Tin-Man Lau.
Our Committee:
Peak Season Internship
Skills and experiences from my time at Peak season as their Summer Design Intern that give me confidence in my abilities as an Industrial designer. Along with tokens of gratitude I have taken with me from my experience that allowed me to not only strengthen my industrial design skills in illustrator, sketching, and fusion 360. I also had the chance to learn so much more of the inner workings of the furniture business and cross-team collaboration in an office setting.
A fun graphic I had the chance to display for our Socials and in person to promote the annual free cookies provided at Peak season's personal showroom at the Atlanta Market. A graphic used not only for that year but re-used throughout into the next summer as well.
Seeing our work in action! From our trip to the Atlanta Market showroom, it was awesome to experience seeing a team-collaborated work being displayed in a real-world scenario.
While at Peak Season, I had great opportunity to expand my skills in sketching, Fusion 360, and material knowledge. I am so grateful to have had this opportunity and to have worked with such a great team.
Involvement
Some of my favorite memories were developed getting to stretch my instructor skills as an Industrial Design Camp Counselor for Auburn Universities Youth programs over two different summers! Lead by Professor Benjamin Bush, we had the opportunity to lead students in many technical skills such as sketching, sewing, ideation, woodworking, and more! Building creative skills and teaching each student the design process of a typical Industrial design project they might see in an Auburn classroom.
Having the honor to be a CADC Ambassador was one of my favorite parts of my undergraduate experience at Auburn. This role allowed me to participate in leading tours for prospective students from all around who wanted to learn more about Industrial design. It also allowed me to participate in events that intersected with the other schools within our college of Architecture, Design, and Construction.
Auburn's Study Beyond Program
Through Auburn University’s Study Beyond program in Mobile, Alabama, I spent a semester immersed in an intensive studio environment, collaborating on multiple projects across various industries. This experience broadened my design perspective and strengthened my ability to adapt to diverse design challenges.
Through participating in this studio experience we had the opportunity to work on multiple projects at a time including WW&L ticketing experience, Rogers & Willards ideation and prototyping, and Old Majestic brewery adirondack builds.
Personal projects
Over the years I have found sewing soft goods such as refurbished quilts, towels, bags, and more allows me to create to the full extent with something rewardingly tangible at the end of each personal project! Considerably, I am still a beginner with the vastness that comes with sewing possibilities. But these are a few of my favorite current projects that have given me a chance to explore in the world of soft goods.
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Pictured to the right are friends admiring my finished T-shirt quilt I had completed over the summer of Graduate school!
One of my most recent projects, a quilted tote bag using a refurbished sage green quilt from TJ Maxx. Having pre-bought the quilt this project proved ruthless in attention to detail when it came to matching the inner lining fabric and utilizing the blankets tassles for the side pockets on both sides. The goal for this project was to create an over-large tote bag and to test my limits when it came to taking apart and putting back together something fun and functional.