I turn Breakthrough Ideas into Impactful, Market-Ready Products
I help early-stage ventures turn scientific breakthroughs into fundable, user-centered products—combining biomaterials, circular design, storytelling, and go-to-market strategy to launch and scale climate innovations.
I’m an award-winning creative working across science, design, and entrepreneurship, with experience leading product strategy and creative direction for first-of-their-kind solutions in fashion, home care, packaging, and building materials. I founded Lempres after launching the innovation studio Doppelgänger, directing venture-backed climate startups, and co-founding ReefCycle, a venture transforming building materials.
I hold a Master’s in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute and conjuncture with CERN’s Challenge-Based Innovation program. My work has been recognized by IDEO, Gucci, The Biomimicry Institute, and What Design Can Do, and featured in global exhibitions and partnerships with Google Hardware, GM, Method Products, and Lexus.
The majority of a product’s impact’s determined at the design stage.
I use design as a strategic tool to turn vision into action—bringing systems thinking, circular strategy, and material innovation together to create products that are intuitive, regenerative, and built for scale. Underlying every decision is a deep commitment to user experience: human-centered design is how we ensure that climate solutions don’t just work—they resonate. These concepts drive my practice:
Nature Co-Design
Integrating human ingenuity with the inherent intelligence of natural ecosystems. The result: intuitive products that align with real human needs and ecological realities.
Transition Design
Every product exists within a larger system. I embed long-term thinking into early-stage decisions, ensuring today’s products serve tomorrow’s goals.
Design for Circularity
From modular design and bio-based materials to end-of-life strategy, I help companies future-proof their products and unlock circular value.
Press
“How can we harness the resilience of nature to protect our coastlines and promote marine biodiversity?”
Sustainably designed reefs are the future of the sea, Wired
“To these two innovators, waste is not waste. Waste is a primary source for design innovation in the future.”
Designers Creating Waste-Led Fashion for the WM Design Challenge, Forbes
“Replacing petroleum-based plastics in electronics with a carbon-capturing bioplastic made from agricultural waste.”
Can Food Waste Reduce Electronic Waste?, Issues in Science and Technology
“Reef Rockets are small and modular, and that’s all by design. You can install them off any harbour, along any coastline.”
Restoring New York City’s Reefs, What Design Can Do
“the designers say mealworms could eventually help to tackle two sustainable development goals at the same time, providing food security and fighting pollution.”
Doppelgänger Creates Polystyrene Substitute from Plastic-Eating Mealworms, Dezeen
“By utilizing an existing waste stream, we can reduce the negative lifecycle impact of water filtration”
Home Compostable Water Filters from Food Waste, Dezeen
Connect
If you're building a physical solution for the climate crisis, now is the time to make it tangible. I work with founders and teams to bring early concepts to life—through design, strategy, and storytelling that moves markets.