Hi there! 👋 My name is Michelle.

About me

I'm a senior at Knox College in Galesburg, IL, majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Political Science.

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Places I've Worked

🖥 Google - Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2019)

🖥 Google - Engineering Practicum Intern (Summer 2018) 👉 my work

🖌 BlueJeans - UX Product Design Intern (Summer 2016/17)

📰 The Knox Student - Web and Graphic Designer (May 2017 - present)

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Projects

📚 Assorted UX work

• UX work from school projects.

📊 Knox College diversity visualizations

• Visualizations for Student Senate's Diversity Committee, depicting racial diversity at Knox in 2017 and previous years.
• For this project, I focused on creating graphics that were both informative and accessible in D3–this was my first time using the library.
• If I were to do this again, I would spend more time figuring out what visualization best tells a story with the data. Some of the graphs ended up somewhat unclear.
• Used d3.js, HTML, CSS

📰 Work @ The Knox Student

• I write scripts for various tasks I perform as graphic/web designer on the school newspaper.

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Hackathon Projects

BuildHer 2018 - BuildAccess | 🥉

First time using Ionic and Firebase to create a mobile app

BuildHer 2017 - featured: |

Made a webpage using HTML/CSS/JS/Firebase.

MinneHack 2017 - PlannedB

Created a website using a map API.

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Honors

• Associated College Press award finalist 2019, Design of the Year, Infographic
• Knox College Faculty Scholarship Prize
• Illinois College Press Association awards, 2019
• 2nd Place Feature Page Design (with Zarah Khan and Sam Jacobson), Non-Dailies under 4,000
• Honorable Mention Graphic Illustration, Open Division 👉 see the illustration here
• Grace Hopper Scholar, 2018

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Other Things

✒️ I'm a very amateur calligrapher and an even worse otamatone player.

🛁 I've illustrated one (1) anthropomorphized sink.