I’m an artist, designer, entrepreneur, and mom in Austin, TX.
My goal is to help increase people's emotional intelligence through interactions with technology. Much of the world centers around technology interactions – and it is well-documented that these interactions influence our well-being. How might we leverage technology to improve emotional intelligence, resilience, well-being, and thriving? I ask myself this question every day and work toward creating and testing solutions that might accomplish this goal.
For the past several years, I've been researching human emotion and how we can describe, experience, and measure this phenomenon that is so unique to each individual. During this process, I designed a way to quantify the emotional experience by asking for user reactions with emojis. This led to the development of a more robust model for how attitudes and emotions can be categorized and how they relate to each other. I've designed a path from emotional apathy towards resilience and thriving. Rather than viewing this through a clinical practice lens, I apply this through interactions with technology.
From 2002 – 2014 I founded and ran a boutique design, branding & marketing agency. I sold the business to a larger marketing firm in 2014.
I am the founder and head Growth Coach at Spoonbend, and co-founder of Feelalytics.
I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Master's Degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology from Harvard.
