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Portfolio

Food is Medicine

Teaching Kitchen Collaborative (2023 – Present)

[peer reviewed pub] How might we update the standard medical history intake questionnaire with foodlife question set to improve health outcomes and heal physicians burnout?

Nutrients article

horsetail herb and dried kelp

How do Googlers work, eat and live?

Google (2014 – Present)

[organizational ethnography] How might we create extraordinary workplace experiences to support a well (functioning) culture at Google that attracts and retains top tech talent?

Turning fairytales into dream jobs in tech

Mentors in Tech (2021 – Present)

[user journeys] How might we support non-traditional (first-generation, low-income, immigrant, veteran…) tech students so that they are included in the pipeline for top tech talent?

Umami to vegetables

Sempio Foods (2018)

[product launch] How might we insert Yondu (umami in a bottle) into the shopping and cooking routines of aspirational home cooks who want to eat more flavorful vegetables in the US?

Home-foods at work

Guckenheimer (2021)

[design sprint] How might we build a Multicultural Kitchen for a Global Tech Company to deliver culturally authentic workplace experiences through FnB services?

Eat your vegetables!

Walmart Labs (2017)

[design sprint] How might we reimagine ‘online’ as digital kitchens and ‘retail stores’ as distribution + pickup, in order to increase shoppers’ utilization of produce departments?

Ready to eat?

UMass Dining (2017)

[design sprint] How might we expand take-home meals beyond “hungry man” users by curating a fresher, lighter, more personalized, higher quality food experience?

A Place Called Local

BrightFarms (2017)

[user journey] How might we move BF produce into the hearts and baskets of mainstream families who want to eat better in order to grow the client’s sub category of hydroponic greens?