I've spent my career moving between research and design, close enough to both to understand what good work requires, and now focused on building the conditions that let it happen.

I've moved through different disciplines to get here. Materials and textiles first, learning how things are made and why people want them. Then language, working out how products speak to people and how to make that feel right.

Five years inside Apple's Design Studio sharpened something else: that the environment is as designed as the artifact, and usually less examined. The research programs, the expert networks, the infrastructure that lets talented people do their best work — getting those right is its own discipline.

That's the work I'm most drawn to now, and intelligence makes it more urgent. How organizations build the research infrastructure to understand AI. How they develop the operational clarity to move with intention rather than reaction. These are the problems I'm focused on, and the ones I'm best positioned to help solve.

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I live in Alameda, CA with my husband and two labradoodles, Honey & Gus. I think a lot about how language shapes understanding, follow reality TV like a sport, and pay close attention to how people make meaning out of new technology.