Grace is a small, creative, and generally upbeat human. She’s San Diego-raised, Richmond-reared, Pittsburgh-schooled, and settled for the past 14 years in New York City.
Her current role is Product Design Director, App Experience at The New York Times, managing a team of designers and leading a range of projects to evolve the modes, formats, and architecture within their News App. Before this, she was a designer at The Wing, Spotify, Warby Parker, and R/GA.
Grace is based in the best-ever borough of Queens, where she lives with her husband and a loyal grey cat named Bowie. She’s presently occupied planning their vegetable garden, re-watching the entirety of The OC, and documenting the beautiful mundanity of daily life on her point-and-shoot Olympus.
Extracurriculars
Speaker, Digital Content Next Tech & Product Conference
Just Press Play: Designing The New York Times Audio App
Spring 2024
Panelist, NEA Design Summit
Re-Imagining Online-Offline Experiences
Fall 2019
Guest Critique, Parsons School for Design
Brand Fundamentals
Summer 2019
Teaching Assistant, General Assembly
User Experience Fundamentals
Summer 2017
Presenter, Girls Who Code
Intro to Responsive Web Design
Spring 2014
Carnegie Mellon School of Design
Academic Honors and Dean’s Scholar
Animal Award for Excellence in Motion Graphics
Featured on Women Who Design