Grace is a small, creative, and generally upbeat human. She’s San Diego-raised, Richmond-reared, Pittsburgh-schooled, and settled for the past 15 years in New York City.
She’s currently a Product Design Director at The New York Times, leading Audio, Video, and foundational initiatives and managing design teams across the core News product. Before this, she was a designer at The Wing, Spotify, Warby Parker, and R/GA.
Grace is based in Ridgewood, Queens, where she lives with her husband and two little cats, Party Hat and Pete. Outside of work, she’s currently keeping busy watching the new season of The Real Housewives of Rhode Island, wishing The Mets didn’t suck this year, and documenting the beautiful mundanity of daily life with her Ricoh GR.
She also writes a newsletter, Sunday Morning Sounds, about her favorite music finds that week.
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