I make ideas easier to understand, with strategy, design and AI tools.

Independent Study · AI Assisted App Development · Fall 2026, in progress

Living Lab Connector

An application that connects people and resources inside a living lab, so the right collaborators and tools are easier to find.

The problem

In a living lab, people, projects and resources are spread out, and it's hard to know who or what can help with the thing you're working on.

What I'm building

I defined the requirements and chose the tools, and I'm now building the prototype myself with AI as my coding partner. Testing against different user needs and edge cases comes next, before the December defense.

Process

A 15 week independent study with my professor: weekly faculty check ins and small builds, a working MVP at midterm, a security and accountability review of the code, then a final deployed version with an oral defense.

Where it is now

In progress. The deployed version and defense come in December 2026.

Tools

Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, AI assisted coding

Live demo coming December 2026

Creative Technology · Feb to May 2026

Lake Pulse Climate Clock

An interactive climate visualization for Lake Superior. Visitors can switch between future scenarios, watch environmental indicators change and follow a seven day stress index.

The problem

Climate data about the Great Lakes is usually buried in reports and charts that most people never open. I wanted something you could actually play with.

What I built

I designed and built the whole interface myself: scenario controls for different futures, environmental indicators that react to them, and a seven day stress index that sums up how the lake is doing.

Process

I pulled figures from NOAA GLERL, the GLOS portal, CoastWatch, EPA monitoring and GLISA, and turned them into four indicators: surface temperature, ice cover loss, deep oxygen and algae bloom risk. Switching between the current, best and worst case scenarios, or moving the warming slider, changes every number right away, including a countdown to a critical ecological threshold. The live feed is simulated, and the interface is responsive, so it works on desktop and mobile.

Outcome

A finished, responsive web experience completed in May 2026.

Tools

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, data visualization, interaction design

AI / Creative Technology Intern · Global Dignity · Jun to Dec 2025

AI learning experiences at Global Dignity

AI powered learning tools that make entrepreneurship and business ideas more accessible to young people, including the Eco Star North / Inuit Innovators custom GPT on climate awareness and community centered innovation.

The framework

Eco Star North adapts the CO STAR innovation framework, created by Herman Gyr and Olaf Kuhlke, for climate entrepreneurship, the creative economy and nature positive innovation. It brings together climate science, circular economy models, Indigenous knowledge and regenerative business design, and it works through six questions: Customer, Opportunity, Solution, Team, Advantage and Results.

What I did

Used generative AI, prompt design, research and content planning to turn this framework into AI learning experiences that young innovators can actually work through, and to improve how the material was organized and explained.

Tools

ChatGPT, custom GPTs, prompt design

Marketing Strategy and Project Planning · Fall 2025

MCAD Recruitment Viewbook

A project plan and scope proposal for a recruitment viewbook aimed at prospective undergraduate and transfer students, presented in December 2025.

The goal

A collectible print piece that introduces MCAD's community and campus through authentic visuals, and gets prospective students to visit the website, follow on social and reach out to counselors.

What I did

Worked with a team to turn interviews and questionnaires into messaging, creative direction, project scope, an RFP and a production roadmap.

Proof points

Our research landed on three reasons to believe: academic flexibility (MCAD offers minors like Creative Entrepreneurship), open access to resources across departments, and a community that feels the opposite of institutional.

Approach

The roadmap puts collecting candid, unfinished process content before final design, because the story is about students becoming artists, not only their finished work. That content phase is the longest and most important part of the timeline.

Skills

Marketing research, content planning, stakeholder research, project planning

Co Founder · Jan to May 2025

Circle

A proposed marketplace connecting art and design students with clients, mentors and creative opportunities.

What I did

Helped design AI based matching by skills, style and availability, and worked on market research, the business model and the funding pitch.

Skills

Market research, business planning, pitching, product thinking