This project utilizes programs, an online resource guide, and an EduKit to strengthen environmental literacy and love for the outdoors in Central Delaware. These successful programs have resulted in an enthusiastic, constant attendance, and the crafts and stories from the 'Wednesdays in the Woods' programs have inspired great passion around the environment for both kids and families.

Northwest Harvest's Learning and Impact (L&I) department is focused on the implementation of equity-focused systems to fight food injustice. To that end, it's critical for them to maintain comprehensive, transparent records of their community partnerships, with an emphasis on tracking information that can be used to foster growth of programs and partnerships through the lens of antiracism. In order to help realize that system, I conducted a departmental needs assessment centered around Salesforce data fields, then presented a compilation of my findings and data field requests to Northwest Harvest’s Salesforce administrator, and we established a rough timeline for implementation.

Our project picks up from the 2021 project, Funds to Vote, a website focused on creating transparency between American voters and politicians’ funding. American politics is full of jargon, confusing statistics, and an overwhelming amount of information, especially for the average voter. We improved the UX/UI to create a more user-friendly experience, modernized the old codebase, and added the “Congressperson Comparison Tool” feature to the website. We did this in hopes of helping American voters make more informed decisions regardless of background in the political sphere and empowering them to vote for politicians who truly align with their values.

Our project consisted of fundraising for new shelving and obtaining artwork to be displayed in the library space of Green Hill Academic School in Chehalis, Washington. We also aimed to provide more Spanish and Mental Health books. We fundraised $1,500 for the library’s shelves. Through our social media campaigning, we purchased 114 books from Green Hill’s wishlists. We are also proud that we secured ten pieces of artwork that will hopefully make a more vibrant library space for the residents. We hope that our efforts will impact the Green Hill Academic School Library and help to enrich the lives of the students.

Grievers Library is a non-profit working to provide free bereavement literature to those who need it most, through free book boxes dispersed throughout Seattle. In developing this library further, I have expanded the physical collection, created a highly accessible tagging system with grieving users in mind, and curated online booklists that allow users to borrow recommended titles from their own public library. Living with a loss is overwhelming, but the search for support and comfort does not need to be.

Among 200 million U.S Gamers, 83% of American adults have experienced harassment in online multiplayer games. Our research showed that 64% of the harassment seemed from the low skill level of the players. Thus, the gaming community needs a friendly and safe environment where they can find teammates and improve their in-game skills. Guddy seeks to create the environment by matching players based on their gameplay, interests, and preferences. With Guddy, players from around the world would be able to find new ways of improving together and find connections that can last for a lifetime.

Healio provides a modern and accessible solution for users to access their healthcare information with a user-friendly interface and family healthcare integrations to manage health information efficiently. Based on our research, many users face difficulties managing their family’s healthcare online, with issues ranging from difficulty logging into family member portal accounts, making appointments and reviewing treatments online, as well as health privacy concerns. To address these issues, Healio is designed to be navigable and easy to understand to allow users to access and share family health information, communicating with providers as they often would in person - as a family.

Coordinating meetings, distributing fliers and making photocopies are more than just minute, everyday tasks—they are integral to building and sustaining social movements. This project explores how information practices were foundational to Seattle’s uniquely collaborative fight against HIV/AIDS, which was signified by partnerships between activist groups, local government, and University of Washington researchers. Based on interviews with ten local HIV/AIDS activists, this project highlights the ways that information can create possibilities for activism across axes of difference. While this project mainly focuses on local HIV/AIDS activism during the 1980s and 1990s, it provides a blueprint for activist imaginaries today and beyond.

For my project, I worked with a librarian at Pacific University to enhance 362 print records using the Homosaurus controlled vocabulary. Homosaurus is an international LGBTQ+ linked data vocabulary. The goal of this project was to improve the relevance and authenticity of the records' subject terms to make these resources more inclusive and more easily discoverable by university students. The records were updated in OCLC Connexion, so universities across the country will benefit from the record enhancement we accomplished.

Housing Voucher Help is a design-sensitive website that fills the tech-literacy gap for the homeless community, empowering individuals to get the resources they need. By simplifying the housing voucher application workflow and consolidating low-income housing resources, we make applying for and using the vouchers easier. The emergency housing voucher was implemented to help homeless people afford rent, but a year after distribution, less than half of them have been awarded in Seattle. That’s why we aim to increase voucher applications so that 100% of Seattle vouchers are utilized to connect people with stable housing that could change their lives.