about me

I help individuals / organizations better understand themselves and their contexts so they can adapt to change.

As a daughter of immigrants turned ethnographer, I realized early on the value of understanding ideas from individuals’ unique cultural contexts to appreciate their nuances.

Over the past 6 years, I’ve used this human-centered approach to help organizations better serve the needs of their stakeholders through in-depth research, organizational strategy consulting, facilitation, and product design. Recently, I was a startup Product Designer helping design the MVP for a web platform that enables supportive peer circles.

My goal: combine my strategic and design skills to create products/services that improve equity and empathy for all.  

When I’m not designing, you can find me: 

• Trying to summit peaks and cross valleys in my trusty Tevas

• Facilitating cross-cultural dialogues for students across 5 continents

• Starting a new virtual exchange program between youth in US, Iraq, Syria and Yemen

• Planning my next cross-hemisphere trip (next up: Amman)

• Randomly appearing on your next global news channel…