A New Lines story treats foreign stories as a personal experience, rather than something inherently foreign.
As visuals editor from 2024 to 2025, I worked alongside editors and reporters to close the distance between American readers and the worlds they have not yet seen.
Whether creating editorial art or commissioning photography in the field, my work always returned to the lived experience of each story. How might certain subjects look stripped of geopolitical framing or inherited stereotypes?
Assad’s Human Slaughter House
Photos by Cian Ward
In a Propaganda Move, Russia Targeted and Deported Disabled Children from Ukraine
Photos by Ivan Antypeko
These ideas carried into my design around the magazine's digital presence, from social visuals to an interactive landing page of its visual journalism.
Inside Syria’s Captagon Industry
Inside a Swiss Adoption Scandal
Interactives Stories Site
Extending beyond the magazine to its publisher, New Lines Institute, I now lead the organization's first visual refresh in over seven years. To realize its mission, I began by visualizing what it means to “bring regional perspectives to American foreign policy.” Click here to learn more about the project.
Prior to that at Foreign Affairs Magazine, I helped the design team on three print issues while growing it’s off-platform content in newsletters, social media, and marketing. I also helped manage and animate commissions.
At Foreign Policy, I animated feature art and helped grow its podcasts through cover designs, illustration commissioning, social, and marketing campaigns.
My proudest contribution to this space was an essay co-written by myself and human rights lawyer, Ramona Li. Examining how media portrays foreign contexts compared to domestic ones, I argued that these depictions are rarely neutral and come with a cost.
