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Case studies.

Research, facilitation, design systems, and service design — each from a different context, together telling a consistent story about how this practice works.

Harvard × Superfriendly

2023

Designing a Practice That Outlasts the Workshop

Six sessions, six participants, one living playbook the team still owns. The interface was a room. The product was a changed way of working.

FacilitationCurriculum DesignInclusive Design
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Calendly

2021–2023

Building Durable Infrastructure Inside an Organization That Won't Hold Still

56 components, 112 designers and engineers, high turnover, no dedicated PM — a system adopted in its first year because it was designed to be embedded rather than imposed.

Design SystemsDesign OpsAccessibility
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Methodology

Applied 2019–present

Listening Before You Intervene

A methodology essay on structured listening as a diagnostic for systemic dysfunction — how position-based sampling surfaces the patterns that conventional research misses.

ResearchMethodsFacilitation
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Practice Notes

Ongoing

What the Room Holds

On the somatic and transformative justice roots of this facilitation practice — and what's different about holding space when the stakes are real.

FacilitationSomaticsTransformative Justice
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