I am a graphic artist, interactive developer and designer for Voice of America. I design, illustrate, animate and write code to tell stories. VOA provides objective news and information in nearly 50 languages to over 300 million people around the world every week. For over 80 years, VOA has broadcast content that many people cannot get locally: objective news and information about the U.S., their region and the world. | Read more
Metro sketchbook
A year of surreptitiously drawing people on the Red Line.
interactive projects
Looking for answers to the mystery of mass shooters
Who commits public mass shootings? What motivates them to kill? With the help of a landmark database, VOA examines the social, psychological, emotional and environmental factors that contributed to these rare crimes.
Story design portfolio
Weathering the storm: The climate crisis in coastal Louisiana
As climate change wreaks havoc on the shores of southern Louisiana, residents wonder how long their resilience can last. But the hard work of adapting to our changing climate is well underway.
design
Risk and reward: Bienvenidos a Tijuana
In covering violence in Tijuana, Mexico, the city’s journalists give voice to a community demanding change.
design
Cambodia Adrift
Having dissolved the main opposition party, Cambodia’s ruling party faced certain victory in the national election even as its crackdown on dissent continued.
design
The Worth of a Girl: Child marriage around the world
VOA reporters around the world focused on the worth of a girl to reveal how a young bride is valued by the family she leaves behind, the one she joins, and to learn the cost to the girl herself of marrying before age 18.
Documentaries
I storyboarded and animated short vignettes used throughout these documentaries.
Explainer animations portfolio
Tigray, Ethiopia: From conflict to humanitarian crisis
In early November 2020, the federal government of Ethiopia — led by Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed — launched a military campaign to regain control of the contested region from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front fighters. We explore the human cost of the armed clashes.
animation
What is the United States Postal Service?
The history of the Postal Service is actually older than the United States. In this short video we briefly explain the history of U.S. mail and why it still matters today.
animation
Using ice cores to understand climate change
During the 1950s, a Danish scientist discovered that rain carries a record of the temperature at which it fell.
animation
Rising sea levels threaten Africa's coasts
A Senegalese professor explains how climate change is causing rising sea levels along Africa’s coasts.
comics journalism
Confronting morality: Women under the Islamic Republic
In September 2022, Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian, died while in custody of Iran’s morality police. Now generations of Iranian women are speaking out about the impact decades of repression has had on them and their families. Here are five of their stories told through comics journalism.
