Featured Projects

Food & Nature Related Projects:

I enjoy exploring topics that situate food and eating within its historical, cultural, and health contexts.

Southern Family Farmers & Food Systems Conference (2022)

How can we make egg carton labels easier to understand? (2022)

What’s in Season in Texas (2022)

25 years of “made in Italy:” Protecting Italy’s Traditional Foods (2021)

A World of Pizza Napolitana: Examining Pizza Traditions (2021)

Patterns of Food & People: La Pasquetta (2021)

Anatomy of Food (2021)

Grow, Eat, Heal: 100 illustrated Herbs & Spices (2020)

A Plume Looms in Bethpage (2019)

10 days of Coffee Drinking in Italy (2019)

“Eat Local” with Thomas Jefferson (2019)

You Are What You Absorb: a look at the uncertainty of counting calories (2019)

A Matter of Taste: 85 years of grading our meat (2019)

Mum Foods (2018)

Good Ole “German” Sauerkraut (2018)

Selected Communications Projects:

For the past decade or so I have been studying community health through a public health and social welfare lens. I’ve worked on a number of projects that promote the well-being of children and families in various roles. Below is a summary of some of the projects I’ve worked on that use human-centered approaches to create information assets.

Reinventing Texas Foster Care: The Texas Permanency Outcomes Project (2018-Present)

Connected, Safe & Empowered: The Texas Foster Youth Health Initiative (2020-Present)

Amplifying Youth Voice: The Texas Youth Permanency Project (2017-Present)

Babies Can’t Wait: The Safe Babies Program Evaluation (2018-Present)

Everyday Justice: Cultivating Intentional Connection (2020)

Creating Protective Communities Across Texas: The Project HOPES Evaluation (2015-2019)

Foundations to Thrive: A Community Asset Mapping Project (2018)

Other Design & Video Work:

National Angels Process Evaluation Report (2022)

Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Understanding the Community Service Response and Needs in Texas (2021)

Strong Fathers Process Evaluation Report (2021)

The Children with Special Health Care Needs Project: Needs Assessment Report (2021)

My Reel (2020)

Habitat for Humanity of Williamson County Texas: Homeowner Survey Findings (2019)

Upper Ninety (2018)

Education Reach For Texans (2018)

Clinician’s Corner: The EBP Issue (2018)

Clinician’s Corner (2017)

I am The ARC Campaign (2014)

UT Child Welfare Conferences (2017, 2018, 2020) 

Girasol (2018)

Child Welfare Education Collaboration (2017)