Gretchen fun facts!
🦸♀️My superpower: Emotional intelligence; I love talking to users
💻 Data nerd: Master’s in quantitative research; love drinking coffee, listening to music, and programming in SAS and Stata
📚 Reading: My goal this year is to read 25 books (Harry Potter fan here!)
🥾 Hiking: I’ve done RV camping in New Zealand, the Pacific Northwest, and US National Parks
🖋️ Illustrating: I do illustrations for practiceproduct.com, a blog about product management
My career journey
I am driven to answer the following questions:
I’ve always been interested in people’s behavior and motivating desires. I earned a BA in behavioral economics and MA in quantitative research methods
What makes people tick?
How can we educate and influence habits?
At the NYC Department of Ed, I manage enrichment programs that offer STEM skills to NYC’s one million K-12 students
Outside of work, I’m creating a picture book developing social-emotional skills of children ages 4-6. I own the entire process of designing the readers’ experience—story, illustrations, layout, branding
How can design improve everyday experiences?
Illustration samples
