Creative strategy across design, marketing, and experiences — advancing brands and expanding what’s possible.

Design strategist translating audience insight into brand systems, marketing strategy, and experience design. Graduate research in public health explores how environments, relationships, and behavioral context shape how people engage with ideas, services, and experiences.

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Cross-Platform Visual Identity

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Hospitality Brand Development

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Engaging Visual Frameworks

Approach

Creative strategy begins with understanding audiences, systems, and context. My work connects research, storytelling, and design to build brand ecosystems that grow with their audiences.

Audience Insight

Understanding motivations, behaviors, and cultural context through qualitative and quantitative signals.

Creative Strategy

Developing frameworks that connect brand positioning, messaging, and experience across channels.

Design Systems

Translating strategy into visual languages, marketing assets, and scalable brand environments.

Perspective

My work sits at the intersection of creative strategy, audience understanding, and design systems.Alongside professional work across entertainment, gaming, and mission‑driven initiatives, my graduate research in public health examines how people interact with the environments, networks, and experiences around them. Rather than focusing only on individual behavior, the work looks at the broader systems and connections that influence how people seek information, make decisions, and engage with resources.That perspective informs how I approach brand development, marketing strategy, and experience design—looking beyond surface‑level messaging to understand the deeper dynamics shaping audience behavior.The result is creative strategy grounded in context: connecting insight, storytelling, and design to help ideas travel further and reach the people they are meant for.

2023 — Present

Rally Cry

Graphic Designer & Marketing
Visual systems and marketing assets supporting major esports tournaments reaching 160M+ total media reach.


2022 — PRESENT

Gold House

Design Fellow
Industry reports and visual systems presenting cultural and market insights for partners, creators, and industry leaders.


2022 — 2025

Asian Americans with Disabilities Initiative

Creative Director
Creative direction and design systems for a national nonprofit resource guide and digital presence.


2022 — 2023

Activision Blizzard

Presentation Designer
High‑impact pitch environments translating campaign concepts for brand partners and stakeholders.

PORTFOLIO

The Design Collection

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Cross-Platform Visual Identity

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Hospitality Brand Development

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Engaging Visual Frameworks

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Reports on Sustainable Futures

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Client

Rally Cry

Deliverables

Branding, Social Media, Broadcast Assets

Dynamic social media, branding, and broadcast designs for Rally Cry ignite the esports community’s passion, driving engagement and uniting players and fans through powerful, immersive visual storytelling.

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Eye-catching social media graphics that hype up the community and get gamers pumped to join the action at every esports event.

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High-energy visuals created to rally players and fans to bring their A-game and own every play.

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Bold broadcast graphics designed to amplify the excitement of esports championships, delivering a thrilling, immersive experience for players and viewers alike.

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Inspiration

Yen N.

Brand Assets

Website, Social Media Campaign, Menus, Business Cards, Invitations, Storefront Hanging Sign

Inspired by a love for authentic pasta and vibrant wine culture, this branding mockup brings to life a warm, inviting atmosphere that celebrates flavor, tradition, and the joy of sharing every spritz and bite.

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Menus and invitations invite guests to the table,
social media invites them into the story.

Bringing flavor to life online. Engaging and inspiring the community.

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Nonprofit

Rainforest Partnership

Creative Deliverables

Annual & Impact Reports, Social Media, Giving Guide, Flyers

The vibrant rainforest was brought to life through immersive, evocative visuals that capture its dense biodiversity, tangled canopies, and vital ecosystems — transforming conservation efforts into a compelling story that awakens passion and drives urgent action.

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Artworks uplift those who stand with the rainforest, inviting all to step into the story and help write its future.

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Project

Concepts

Samples

Presentation Designs

Showcasing diverse aesthetics, themes, and focal points, these presentation mocks are purposefully designed to communicate ideas with clarity and creative impact across a variety of projects and audiences.

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Call of Duty League presentation mocks capture the high-energy, competitive spirit of esports through bold visuals and dynamic layouts, crafted to engage fans and stakeholders with immersive storytelling and strategic design.

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A creative practice rooted in strategy, systems, and an understanding of how people connect with ideas.

My work builds on a multidisciplinary foundation shaped by design, marketing, and research. Over the years, I’ve navigated roles across entertainment, gaming, and nonprofit ventures—spaces that taught me how creativity operates not just as expression, but as a tool for alignment, growth, and connection.Today, my focus sits within creative strategy: bridging design, marketing, and audience understanding to guide how brands articulate vision, scale experiences, and adapt to changing markets.In parallel, my ongoing graduate research in public health explores how ecosystems—social, environmental, and relational—shape human behavior and engagement. Rather than studying individuals in isolation, this work examines context: how people interact with communities, media, and systems of care. It deepens how I think about design and communication as interconnected networks that influence decisions, trust, and participation.Whether designing a campaign, a presentation, or a long-term strategy, I approach every project as an ecosystem—identifying its moving parts, understanding the relationships that sustain it, and building frameworks that reveal clarity and opportunity. For me, design is both analytical and creative: a discipline that connects what’s understood with what’s possible.

How I Work


Every project begins with understanding—of purpose, audience, and system. From there, design becomes translation: turning insight into creative form, and creative form into strategic direction.My process follows three principles:
1. Listen deeply. Every brand already holds its narrative and strategy begins with surfacing it.
2. Design for connection. Strong creative systems unite people—teams, partners, audiences—around shared understanding.
3. Build with adaptability. Great design outlives trends because it’s built on clarity.
These principles help me take projects beyond deliverables, toward frameworks that evolve and perform across contexts.

Research &
Ongoing Focus


My MPH research builds on my design background by studying connection itself: understanding how context and relationships influence the ways people seek, interpret, and apply information. In broader terms, it’s about how ideas travel and how systems foster trust and participation.This thinking informs how I develop creative strategy and brand systems, helping teams craft communication and experiences that feel intuitive because they’re aligned with how people naturally connect and learn.

I craft creative strategies that connect research, design, and marketing to move ideas from insight to experience.

Education

Masters of Public Health

Anticipating October 2026


B.A. Public Health Policy

2014

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Nonprofit

Asian Americans with Disabilities Initiative (AADI)

Brand Assets

Brand Identity, Resource Guide, Presentations, Social Media

Transformed AADI’s brand into a powerful beacon of inclusion and empowerment, crafting bold, dynamic designs that amplify disabled Asian American experiences and ignite a vibrant community movement.

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AADI created the first-ever comprehensive resource guide specifically for disabled Asian Americans. Published in 2022, this guide combined personal stories, peer-reviewed research, and community resources to combat ableism and uplift the disabled Asian American community.

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Public Health

I work with communities to develop initiatives that inspire action and advance missions.

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Publications

Resource Guide for Asian Americans with Disabilities

Creative Director & Designer, Asian Americans with Disabilities Initiative (AADI)
First ever resource guide for Asian Americans with disabilities in the U.S.


Ave Astra

Editor-in-Chief & Creative Director, Ave Astra's self-titled digital magazine centered on disability and neurodivergent culture


AANHPI Disability and Neurodivergent Narratives

Curator, AMBIV Collective

Volunteer Designer

beWasteWise

Environment, Sustainability


Rainforest Partnership

Environmental Conservation


National Peace Corps Association

Global Service Community


Gold House

Asian and Pacific Leadership

Professional & Advisory Roles

Peer Advisory Council Member

Flourish Labs


Communications Apprentice

Disability Belongs (formerly RespectAbility)


Disability Mentor

(Trained by) Partners for Youth with Disabilities

Presentations

Neurodivergent Career Skills

AMBIV Collective, Los Angeles Public Library


Navigating Healing, Resilience, and Resistance

AMBIV Collective, Los Angeles Public Library


Empower Access: STEM and Beyond

40th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference


The Art of Disability Cosplay

Los Angeles Public Library's Disability Cosplay Jamboree


Reclaiming Your Story: An Intersectional Approach to Increasing Equity and Accessibility

Asian Americans with Disabilities Initiative, Asian Hustle Network Conference


Dismantling Stigmas and Building a Neuro-Inclusive World

Autodesk's Asian Network and MIND Network

Panels

Intersectionality with Queer Asian Panel

AMBIV Collective, Los Angeles Public Library


ADHD x Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Panel

AMBIV Collective, NAMI Southern Nevada
First ever in Las Vegas, NV


AANHPI Autism Self-Advocacy Panel

AMBIV Collective, Asian Americans with Disabilities Initiative, Asian Mental Health Project, Autism Society, Entwine Community, NeuroTalent Works, Very Asian Foundation, Yellow Chair Collective


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LinkedIn

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