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Climate Action Rhode Island is an affiliate of 350.org fighting for 100% renewable energy, a clean and sustainable earth, environmental justice, and working to build the climate movement in Rhode Island. My role here as communications manager involves all content concepting and production. This involves tracking news and cultural topics, creating calls to action and engaging educational materials, and tracking the response and analytics on how this content performs. 

These graphics have been developed as part of Climate Action Rhode Island’s Yes-to-Wind campaign. In 2024, we launched Yes to Wind, a grassroots campaign to counter local offshore wind opposition and show visible, community-level support for clean energy. Since then, it’s grown quickly: a key moment being Global Wind Day in June 2025, when we launched the YesToWind.com website and "Yes to Wind" petition, and partnered with allies up and down the East Coast.

This campaign focuses on building community support for offshore wind. Our goal is to elevate the voices of residents, small businesses, workers, and community leaders who want to see wind built responsibly and powering their future. By demonstrating public support, we hope to give decision-makers the backing they need to move projects forward despite organized opposition. 

Future Earth is a community and online platform that seeks to inspire meaningful engagement with the climate crisis through education and social media. Future Earth was founded by Max Moinian and Stephanie Shepherd Suganami with design direction led by Sydney Rae Hass. My role began in 2020 as a design and research intern, during which I researched and designed these posts under the founders creative direction. My role transitioned from design and research to primarily research and content direction after 2022.

As the graphic design work was delegated, my work shifted to research and writing. I concepted, researched, and drafted the copy for these posts, then worked with a graphic designer to visualize them, providing guidance on text hierarchy, visuals, and photos as well as rounds of design feedback.

This map shows the relationship between wildlife species and the urban environment. Using GIS, illustration, and infographic techniques, I show protected bird habitats and the human-related hazards effecting them. This exhibits a correlation between environmental hazards and animal habitat risk.

The Esker Atlas, formally titled An Esker Proviso, is concerned with the original landforms and non human elements that are necessary to provide for in any determination of what boundaries define the land. Human determined boundaries on a physical landscape give way to complex interactions and implications, some immediate and intentional, and others unconsidered until further into the future when clear evidence is seen. There is a relationship and power dynamic between the human groups that claim ownership and stewardship over the land and the ecosystems of living organisms that exist in this space. These nonhuman elements, such as the earth-force formed landscape, animal species, bedrock geology, proximity to water and other resources, are key actors in a site’s history and what has produced the present day composition. This project seeks to provide dimension to the land in ways that subvert typical intentional mapping.