Bio

Born in Perth, Western Australia, I now live in Brooklyn, NY.

I have over 20 years of experience as a user experience professional, most recently with Razorfish as an experience design-focused Creative Director.

Previously, I worked in the Interactive Design Group at Wachovia and as a content developer and information architect for both Computer Associates and iXL. Before joining the dotcom revolution, I was a Communications Coordinator for a non-profit, the South Carolina Organ Procurement Agency, Inc.

I also teach UX design at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. 

I earned degrees in broadcast journalism and English. I also earned a certificate in political journalism at Georgetown University and studied creative writing at Southampton College in New York. I interned as a political journalist in Washington, DC during the 1992 Presidential campaign season. In Summer 2002, I studied Czech language, literature, and culture at Charles University in Prague. More recently, I’ve taken classes in privacy and data security and cyberterrorism at Georgetown and NYU, respectively, and I earned a Global Affairs certificate at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs over three years, completing the program in 2021.

I've written many book, art, and music reviews, as well as feature articles and award-winning fiction. More recently, I’ve written extensively on the subject of immigration in the United States for Medium and The Huffington Post. My writing has featured in numerous publications, including Skyscraper, Make, Pixelsurgeon, Open Sewer, Zmag.com, Creative Loafing, The Charleston Post-Courier, The Korea Herald, The Huffington Post, The Observer, UX Collective, and UX Magazine. I also wrote regularly for the Razorfish blogs Scatter/Gather, Headlight Blog, and Slant.

I have lived in three countries and on three continents. I have traveled on every continent.

If you’d like to get to know me better, you can contact me.