Experience

Work Experience

Social Cipher (2018-Current) Led Social Cipher team as Cofounder/Creative Director. Responsible for high level product direction, startup operations, product team management, art department, and more.

Consulting Experience

Knowalla (Feb-April 2025) Guided the Knowalla team on how to incorporate game based learning techniques into their learning-by-teaching product and developed product wireframes/character designs.

Volunteer Experience

Portfolio Reviewer (University of Southern California, Feb 2025) - Critiqued USC Games program portfolios on-site to provide feedback/suggestions to current students aspiring to work in the games industry.

Ctrl+Alt+Disinfo Game Jam Judge (Remote, Jan 2025) - Chosen to judge impact game jam for Ukranian game devs, determining winning microgrant recipients. Supported by Global Game Jam; themed around combatting misinformation.

Unlikely Collaborators™ Game Jam (Remote, March 2025) - Judged impact-based game jam for Unlikely Collaborators™, hosted by IGDA, for a $20k prize pool. Prompt was ‘perception box.’

Games for Change Student Challenge Juror (Remote, May 2025) - Assessed student character design submissions for the challenge against criteria for its social impact theme.

Speaking Experience

Webinar: Accessibility in Games - What Compliance Misses (Filament Games, Remote, 2025) - Presented as a part of a panel of experts regarding the challenges presented to impact games in schools by accessibility compliance standards. Provided the real-world perspective of having a product on the market and selling to schools. Recording here.

The Positive Power of Parasocial Relationships: Creating Interventions People Can Love (Geek Therapy’s Therapeutic and Applied Geek Gaming Summit, Remote, 2025) - Presented on how to design and implement characters, and their stories, effectively to create positive outcomes in a therapy setting. Facilitated discussion from domain experts on Social Cipher’s team. Recording here (must register).

Supporting and Building a Neurodiverse Team (CityYear, Remote, 2024) - Trained org members on how to effectively support neurodiverse team members from a neurotypical perspective.

Social Cipher: Catalyzing Social and Emotional Learning Through Video Games (AutismTech Conference, Qatar, 2025)

Company overview presentation (MIT SOLVE, New York, 2023)

Community Talent Talk (Portland Indie Game Squad, Portland, 2019)