I’m the director of product and product design at The Washington Post. My team finds ways to grow the business by identifying opportunities to improve our products. We work on subscription products, like the paywall, profile and acquisition funnel, as well as our homepage, article page, navigation, native apps, and email products. We develop strategic and tactical approaches to company and user problems and build delightful, forward-thinking and useful products.
I love working with and leading teams, finding common ground and building on it, and creating great work, whether it’s to solve business or editorial problems. I believe in hiring smart designers, creative problem solvers and exceptional storytellers and creating an environment where my team can do their best work.
Until January 2018, I was The Post’s Graphics Director. I led the graphics team, which includes infographics, news apps and digital story design. My team published work on every digital platform, with a special emphasis on mobile and social, and in the print product.
I conceived, project managed and edited visual stories of all sizes, from breaking news to medium and long-term enterprise. In addition, I led the development of tools and templates that make visual storytelling easier for everyone in our organization. Check out our projects.
In my first four years at The Washington Post, I focused on the design and front-end development of interactive graphics — especially maps and data visualizations — and innovative story experiences for digital platforms that often included video and photography.
I went to the University of North Carolina, where I studied multimedia and photojournalism and graduated with a degree in Journalism and Mass Communication. I was an intern at USA TODAY and worked for The Baltimore Sun before joining the Post.
I co-taught a course on communicating with design at Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies in the fall of 2013.
From 2010-2012, I was a part of the faculty of the National Security Reporting Project at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, an investigative project that takes place in the fall. In 2010, the project we did won an OJA for best student multimedia project.
Sometimes I speak at conferences. Check out a video of one of my talks here.
I’m a native North Carolinian from a small town in western N.C. called Franklin, where some of my family still lives. I’m the youngest of seven girls. Yes, no brothers! I love to read. A lot. I’ve been running a book club since 2010 and I’m obsessed with Goodreads.
Anything on this blog is my opinion and does not reflect the position of my employer, The Washington Post. All graphics are reproduced from The Washington Post, unless otherwise noted.