hi there. my name is Alyssa.

I’m a service designer and strategist focused on ensuring systems and experiences work for the people who engage with them. I specialize in co-design, facilitation, and synthesis.

Currently, I’m a “Digital Services Expert” at the US Digital Service.

Over the last 10 years I’ve worked at or with: Reboot, Smashing Ideas, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, brightspot, USAID, UNWomen, and Orbis International, among others. I’ve also taught undergraduate classes at Parsons, including Design Strategies in Everyday Experience as well as Studio 1 for the Integrated Design BA program.

I hold an MFA in Transdisciplinary Design from Parsons School of Design where I was awarded the DESIS graduate thesis award. I also hold an Honors BS in Community & International Development from the University of Vermont.

I’m based in Brooklyn, NY, where you can find me reading in the park, trying to find all the vegetarian dumplings, and DJing on the weekends.

a few dream projects.

• (Re)design how first generation students interact with guidance councilors on their quest to pick a college

• Co-design how small rural towns plan for their future, and help them implement it

• Design access to public drinking water in cities that doesn’t involve plastic