HELLO EVERYONE 👋🏽

I had the great opportunity to meet most of you last semester in our Fall 2024 – Intro to DH course. For those who I have not had the pleasure of meeting yet, my is Madison, and I am a student in the Digital Humanities MA Program, here at the Graduate Center. In 2023, I graduated from UCLA, receiving my Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology with a specialization in computing, and a minor in Film, Television, and Digital Media.

I am particularly interested in creating intuitive, engaging experiences that blend data and design to tell powerful, meaningful stories. My work focuses on uncovering patterns of inequity and visualizing disparities in education, food health, public space, accessibility, etc. I am committed to designing solutions that are not only visually compelling but also deeply impactful and functional—fostering understanding, empathy, and change.

ROLES

Project Management | Skill 3/5 - Interest 1/5 
- Gained project management experience in previous undergraduate projects

Data Visualization + Mapping* | Skill 4/5 - Interest 4.5/5 
- Extensive previous experience creating appealing visualizations to display large and complex data
- Want to learn how to create more creative, dynamic, and interactive data visualizations
- Comfortable with a lead Data Visualization role 
- *Not interested in mapping for this course at this time

Developer | Skill 2.5/5 - Interest 4/5 
- Front-end experience
- Want to improve on both front- and back-end coding skills in JavaScript
- Very comfortable using website development software systems such as WordPress 

Social Media/Outreach* | Skill 4/5 - Interest 5/5 
- Extensive previous experience with social media marketing and management 
- Very comfortable designing flyers, posters, and other materials for all outreach purposes
- *Not interested in posting on social media at this time

UX/UI Design | Skill 3/5 - Interest 3/5 
- Held support/team member UX & design roles within undergraduate projects, previous work assignments, and design competitions
- Familiar with the UX Design Process

Research/Documentation | Skill 3/5 - Interest 2.5/5 
- Experience with journalism and photography 
- Moderately familiar with academic research
- Holds a Social and Behavioral Responsible Conduct of Research certificate, issued in 01/2023 by the CITI Program. 

Softwares & Applications ~

Proficient - Canva, Qualtrics, Airtable, WordPress, Instagram/Youtube/Twitter

Intermediate (and I want to improve) - Tableau, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, GIS, Adobe Creative Suite, SPSS, Excel

Novice - MATLAB, R, Python, C++, Figma

Overall, I feel very eager to take on any of these roles and learn more about the process, tools, and practice of the Digital Humanities.

Hi, I am Lini and I am in my second semester of the DH program. I did my Masters and PhD in Art History from Rutgers University in NJ. I have a strong research background and my focus is in the intersection of art, medicine and care.

Project Management: I have extensive project management experience from my earlier IT career where I managed teams executing the software project life cycle as well as in my academic journey where I managed my teaching, research and editorial responsibilities along with my scholastic work. I have used software such as Microsoft Project and can learn to use other tools if required.

Developer: I started off as a developer although in legacy languages but that gave me a foundation in programming logic. In the past semester, I taught myself Python, gained some practical experience writing code in the DAV data fundamentals course assignments, used data visualization platforms like Tableau, Knightlab storytelling tools and created web pages integrating these elements. I am a problem solver and would love to assist the primary developer in building the project.

Design/UX: I have a Bachelor in Fine Arts (Painting) and that along with my insights of user experience from my earlier career could help with design decisions and simplification of the interface.

Outreach/ Social Media: Not my area of expertise. However, I conducted an assessment for a museum that involved evaluating the social media usage of a few institutions to build a guidance document to increase their online presence. So, I could contribute if required.

Documentation: I am organized and good at following standards and guidelines. Have some experience in the area from my earlier software career.

Research and Writing: I consider these elements to be strengths. My field involves extensive writing. I have taught art history courses that involved academic writing and college writing course across different genres.

I look forward to being part of our classroom community, finding ways to support each other within and across teams and learn from each other.

Hello everyone! My name is Leonard Santos (he/him) and I am a second-year M.S. student in the Data Analysis and Visualization program. I completed my undergraduate and first master’s degree at NYU in Media, Culture, and Communication with a focus on practice-based digital media, technology, and queer advocacy. Outside of that, I have a lot of administrative, making, and production experience through my work at NYU’s MCC MediaLab where I help lead efforts to increase digital literacy and critical making in our department. Additionally, I work as a theatre producer in New York City!

Project management: I have a lot of experience with project management and I tend to gravitate towards these roles a lot. This includes managing the overarching logistics of my teams both in my job at NYU and theatre casts and crews, creating schedules and reminding people of deadlines, and assisting people whenever problems arise since I try to be familiar with everything that happens. 

Development: I have some experience with development, particularly with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Tableau. I tend to be a quick study and usually can help provide assistance to this area!

Design/UX: I’m fairly proficient with design, although I would not consider this my top strength. I’m very familiar with how to use design software such as Adobe Illustrator and InDesign, along with how to utilize other Adobe products (Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere Pro, Audition).

Outreach/social media: I do this a lot for my theatre work and would really not prefer to have this role for this class.

Documentation: Happy to do it! I tend to document a lot of how things work, mostly due to my experience with project management.

Research: I’m somewhat confident here, although I wouldn’t consider myself PhD level. 

Tech Skills: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Audition, Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign), Tableau, Theatre Producing

Overall, I consider myself all-rounder and I can support a team in any way that’s needed.