Heyo! Call me Sánchez *:･ﾟ✧ ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶
Human-Centered* Service Designer & Researcher with a focus on improving public benefit services, justice, and accessibility. Currently a design researcher at Nava PBC working to improve the way people access paid leave. they/them. First-Gen & Latinx & Yinzer. Nothing comes without its world ✌︎
Design / Teaching / About / Resume
Investigating historically marginalized populations’ barriers to utilizing the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave program
Using equitable research methods to understand and navigate underserved communities and their barriers to utilized paid leave.
🤝 Community & Data-Driven Investigations & Building Relationships→
Using equitable research methods to understand and navigate underserved communities and their barriers to utilized paid leave.
🤝 Community & Data-Driven Investigations & Building Relationships→
✸ Nava PBC
✍︎ MA PFML
✏︎ Service Design, Research, Ops, Community
✍︎ MA PFML
✏︎ Service Design, Research, Ops, Community
Uncovering & Analyzing Glocal Services
Using participatory research methods to map local Sleep & Respiratory Care services to help Philips nurture local services and scale globally.
🤔 Optimization, Universalization & Standardization walk into a bar (yikes!)→
Using participatory research methods to map local Sleep & Respiratory Care services to help Philips nurture local services and scale globally.
🤔 Optimization, Universalization & Standardization walk into a bar (yikes!)→
✸ Philips Sleep & Respiratory Care
✍︎ Local & Global Services
✏︎ Service Design, Research, Healthcare
✍︎ Local & Global Services
✏︎ Service Design, Research, Healthcare
Navigating Mental Health in Orange County, CA
Co-Designing with healthcare professionals and community members to build upon existing infrastructures of healthcare communication
🍊Take a left at the library, then a right at the weird tree →
Co-Designing with healthcare professionals and community members to build upon existing infrastructures of healthcare communication
🍊Take a left at the library, then a right at the weird tree →
✸ Orange County Deptartment of Health
✍︎ Participatory Research, Healthcare
✍︎ Participatory Research, Healthcare
otr(x)s —in Situ
Mattering Eco-Spatial Politics and the Making of Earth-Beings; A Master’s Thesis & Interrogation
💥 Dismantling the master’s climate tools→
Mattering Eco-Spatial Politics and the Making of Earth-Beings; A Master’s Thesis & Interrogation
💥 Dismantling the master’s climate tools→
✸ My Brain
✍︎ Master’s Thesis @ Carnegie Mellon
✏︎ Research for Design, Critical Design
✍︎ Master’s Thesis @ Carnegie Mellon
✏︎ Research for Design, Critical Design
Deforestation in Laurentia
Using the Transition Design framework to assess the complexities of Deforestation in the Laurentian Region.
🌳 If a tree falls, and no one is around to hear it →
Using the Transition Design framework to assess the complexities of Deforestation in the Laurentian Region.
🌳 If a tree falls, and no one is around to hear it →
✸ Laurentian Bioregion
✏︎ Transition Design & Research
✍︎SES Mapping & Politics
✏︎ Transition Design & Research
✍︎SES Mapping & Politics
Kwilt; Resilient Hyperlocal Communities
Building a physical and digital platform for communities of place & practice
🍋Repairing + reviving the spirit of the local lemonade stand →
Building a physical and digital platform for communities of place & practice
🍋Repairing + reviving the spirit of the local lemonade stand →
✸Index Awards
✍︎ Design Research, UX/UI
✍︎ Design Research, UX/UI
Towards Socially Smart Cities
Housing, homelessness, and placelessness in Pittsburgh
🏡 People need more than just a roof over their heads→
Housing, homelessness, and placelessness in Pittsburgh
🏡 People need more than just a roof over their heads→
✸ City of Pittsburgh
✍︎ Transition Research & Design
✍︎ Transition Research & Design
entomo—
Exploring the demystification of barriers to scientific participation via the human senses & technology
🐛️Creepy Crawlies This Way →
Exploring the demystification of barriers to scientific participation via the human senses & technology
🐛️Creepy Crawlies This Way →
✸ Carnegie Museum of Natural History
✏︎Research, Realities, UX/UI
✏︎Research, Realities, UX/UI
Bringing Beam Back
Adapting Allstate beyond the physical and towards digital insurance & cybersecurity
💾️ Why ABC123 as a password isn’t cutting it →
Adapting Allstate beyond the physical and towards digital insurance & cybersecurity
💾️ Why ABC123 as a password isn’t cutting it →
✸ Allstate Digital Safety
✏︎ IA Collaborative
✍︎ Design Systems
✏︎ IA Collaborative
✍︎ Design Systems
Sonny
A speculative inquiry into bringing virtual assistants to the National Parks of America
🌵️ For those recovering from stressful family vacations →
A speculative inquiry into bringing virtual assistants to the National Parks of America
🌵️ For those recovering from stressful family vacations →
✸ National Parks Service
✍︎ VA, UI/UX, Animation
✍︎ VA, UI/UX, Animation
Free Press Futures
Identifying opportunities & barriers of journalistic inquiry in an age of misinformation, defunding, and silencing
📰 NEWS AT 10; THERE IS NO NEWS, HERE HAVE AN AD→
Identifying opportunities & barriers of journalistic inquiry in an age of misinformation, defunding, and silencing
📰 NEWS AT 10; THERE IS NO NEWS, HERE HAVE AN AD→
✸ FPF_PARSONS; New York City
✍︎ Workshop Facilitation & Visual
✍︎ Workshop Facilitation & Visual
Access to Equitable Care during Covid-19 [IN PROGRESS]
An ongoing investigation of the access and lack of access marginalized communities and individuals face when confronted with Covid-19.
🧪vick’s vaporrub saves lives (and money) →
An ongoing investigation of the access and lack of access marginalized communities and individuals face when confronted with Covid-19.
🧪vick’s vaporrub saves lives (and money) →
✸ Philips
✍︎ Healthcare, Design Research
✍︎ Healthcare, Design Research