Participatory Design
Community engagement projects, managed collaborations, and collaborative design models for community-driven narrative work
KUOW, 2022
Produced by reporter Joshua McNichols and Bunthay Cheam, I collaborated with the production to bring an intergenerational group of sources together through a dinner party which served as the central scene for this series exploring displacement in Seattle’s South Georgetown and South Park neighborhoods. The conversations and dialogue that occurred amongst this group of participants helped this single feature turn into a long-from series which went on to win a Murrow Award. A truly collaborate project.
KUOW - 2023
An intensive year-long multi-team collaborative production between KUOW and the International Examiner. I initiated and helped mange the collaboration, contributing one produced feature to the hour long special. This is one of my favorite examples of what happens when media organizations collaborate and when many grassroots voices are part of the storytelling process. Our final product was a mosaic of the changing neighborhood’s social fabric told through a variety of voices.
Systems Thinking for Environmental Communication
Communications Leadership - 2022
This interdisciplinary pilot project explored how visual systems mapping can be used as a tool to draw out connections between various topics and relationships across groups/elements in a community. A great tool for problem solving, used in both engineering and systems change, systems mapping has a place in communication as well. While this was a conceptual project, ideally this method could facilitate unique messaging strategies based on audience and stakeholder needs.