On Leadership.

  • Leaders eat last.

    “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek.

  • Seek first to understand.

    Seek first to understand, then to be understood. From the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

  • Elevate your people.

    I am an educator as much as a designer and my leadership style reflects this. My primary job as a leader is to develop people, giving them opportunities to learn, grow, and shine.

  • Hold yourself accountable.

    Intro to Data Visualization, Design Basics, Typography I + II.

  • Be vulnerable. Be real.

    Undergraduate and graduate design courses in Graphic Design Basics, Typography, and Interaction Design. Co-founder of “The PAD” UMBC’s multidisciplinary prototyping and design lab.