UX RESEARCHER & DESIGNER

Hi!

I'm a comic book nerd who also enjoys human-centered research and design.

My current research examines how Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (TBIPOC) communities build and sustain infrastructures of care that enable collective safety, joy, and self-determination amid systemic neglect and everyday violence. Drawing on an intersectional assemblages framework, I analyze how interdependence and radical care operate as both survival strategies and acts of resistance. I introduce the concept of safety labor, the emotional and cognitive work of managing misrecognition, assessing risk, and mitigating harm, as a shared, community-held practice rather than an individual burden. Through community-centered and participatory methods, my work highlights how TBIPOC people transform survival into flourishing, reframing safety not as the absence of harm but as the presence of belonging and possibility. 

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P.S. Batman is better than Superman. Just saying...

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