As a UX Design Intern, I redesigned the current Red Calabash website and developed it into WordPress, conducted UX/UI Analysis and competitive analysis of other digital design agency websites, and collaborated with the founder to create a revamped style guide for the redesigned website, including a new typography, color palette, and aesthetic in line with current trends in web design.
I worked as a fashion intern for the Lulla Collection in New York City. My responsibilities included working on the company's Instagram by posting images and reels of the company's products and models and keeping track of the company's inventory and online orders in Excel. I also worked in the showroom every day to organize the space and prepare for meetings.
As a School-age Teacher/Site Leader with the City of East Lansing Elementary Schools, I was responsible for managing an Elementary School's Before and After School care program along with introducing new technologies to increase the quality of life of parents, staff, and children.
As a Media Developer and Strategist for the Department of African American and African Studies, my roles and responsibilities included producing appealing multimedia content for the department’s marketing, communications, and social media efforts Spotlight students, speakers, faculty, and events through videos, photographs, and collaborative captioning.
As a production intern with One Pride Productions, my responsibilities included: helping produce video content for social media, broadcast, and internal use; Setting up and tearing down shoots in our studio; Record and uploading all press conferences to DetroitLions.com; and capturing high-quality audio using a boom mic on game days, both home and away.
As a User Experience Intern for The Home Depot, I designed and developed real-time delivery tracker employing comprehensive approach that encompasses user research, storyboards, synthesis, wireframes, user-flow diagrams, low-fidelity and high-fidelity designs, iteration, and prototypes. I also identified target user groups to understand user needs by conducting user research, led user research efforts conducting 50+ interviews, surveys, and usability tests to gather insights and ensure a user-centered design approach.
As an Excel Network intern, my responsibilities included a variety of tasks. On any given day, I was creating newsletters that advertised on- and off-campus jobs, or I was writing blog-style newsletters about career development topics.
I was a fashion Intern at Golden Stitch Design where my main role was to create different repeat patterns that reflected her company. I did lots of art and trend research and drew from that research to create new and trendy patterns that fit the style of Golden Stitch. Most of my research revolved around nature, as that is the main inspiration for Golden Stitch.
As a Social Media and Graphic Design Intern, I learned about the dynamic of working in the office, as well as the struggles of being a designer and having to edit the same file over 20 times.
As a Digital Communications Undergraduate Summer Intern, my responsibilities included Creating and publishing weekly digital intern introduction stories for newsletters, social media, and website, producing high-quality graphics and digital/video content for website, social media, email newsletter, and other communications channels, and assisting the communications team with digital projects on an ad hoc basis.