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Clients and partners

Hello Brave, Bright Harbour, Museum of London, Shift, Future Gov, Design Council, NEF Consulting, Digital Mums, Innovation Unit, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Lankelly Chase, User Voice, Postcode Films, Colour In City, Leap, Lambeth NHS, Carers Hub Lambeth, Soil Association Food For Life, Buckinghamshire County Council, Virginia Nimarkoh, Sonia Kneepkens, Rebecca Birch, Splash & Ripple

My journey

Work

City of Reykjavik
Service Designer
September 2022 - current

Independent Designer and Researcher
Service design, visual storytelling and qualitative research for social change.
March 2020 - September 2022

Shift
Innovation Designer
Working for award-winning charity that designs products and builds ventures to help solve social problems.
May 2019 - March 2020

Food For Life, Soil Association
Head of Service Design
Supporting Food For Life to grow its service design capabilities and to develop innovative solutions to childhood obesity in Lambeth& Southwark schools.
September 2018 - May 2019

Independent Social Designer
Service design, visual storytelling and qualitative research for social change.
Since September 2016, London

Innovation Unit
Senior Service Designer
Facilitating innovation in the public sector through service design, research, and visual storytelling.
August 2011 - September 2016, London

Brixton People's Kitchen
Co-founding director
Leading a community organisation
aiming to reduce food waste and social isolation through celebration.
December 2011 - May 2015, London

thinkpublic
Designer on social innovation projects.
June-July 2011, London

Persuasion Republic
Graphic design on advocacy and
fundraising campaigns, branding and
publications for non-profit organisations.
July 2008 - July 2010, Dublin

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Education

Enrol Yourself (now HuddleCraft)
Self-directed, 2016-2017, London

MA Design for Development
Kingston University, 2011, London

BA Visual Communication
NCAD, Dublin, 2008

Dipl. Typographic Design
Estienne, Paris, 2006
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Languages
Native French, fluent English
basic Spanish and Icelandic

Talks, workshops, exhibitions

Twenty x Twenty
Paris, April 2019

Room to Breathe
Migration Museum, London, 2019

Create - the Art of Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond
Science Gallery Dublin, July 2018
St Peter's Cork, January 2019
University Hospital Galway, February 2019

Service Design in Government,
London, February 2017

Social Design Platform, Lithuania, September 2016

Forward / Story
Costa Rica, May 2015

Open Works Festival of Ideas
London, October 2014

Tedx Brixton,
London, July 2013

Feminism, Farming & The Politics of Food, Feminist library, London, June 2013

International Conference on Designing Food and Designing For Food,
London, July 2012