Design + Advocacy: Transportation Alternatives

My time working with Transportation Alternatives’ Brooklyn Activist Committee — from “mere” volunteer to social-media maven and eventually co-chair of the group itself and its Fix Atlantic Avenue campaign — gave me the opportunity to help make the borough’s and city’s streets safer for everyone on a large scale. It also afforded me the creative freedom to work on a range of design projects and expand my skills communicating sometimes complex subjects to woo the public at large.

The Atlantic Avenue campaign, for example, required flyers, meeting and program announcements for social media, event materials (including one that allowed neighbors to vote for street repair with “Cuomo bucks”), and reports that summed up our actions and advocacy to all involved. I crafted similar documents for the Bridges4People, including a “teach-in” with local leaders to explore the need for better routes on our city’s river pathways. Those designs, and the care and commitment, were one of the reasons Transportation Alternatives cited me as a Brooklyn Activist of the Year.

Skills: Design + Editorial + Photography + Advocacy