About Me
Hello!
I'm Sohara, a Boston based UX/Product Designer & Product Manager with experience in ed-tech, healthcare, immigration, games, and philanthropy. I am passionate about accessible design, education, gaming, social good, and their intersections.
I enjoy doing many things at the same time including design, art, illustrating, climbing, and reading!
Currently reading: Everything is Tuberculosis
Currently playing: Balatro
💫 Experience
I recently finished my roles as lead UX/UI Designer at the Harvard Law School and also Project Manager for the Learn Labs, a consortium of five research labs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
In the past, I've designed within the education, healthcare, immigration, philanthropy and the art industry.
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🖌 Art Projects
★ I create art and designs for community spaces, local businesses, and people.
★ One of my favorite pieces was a drawing of someone's two dogs together. The dogs were never able to be in the same room because they would often fight. I created an art piece with the two dogs together in the same room, and seeing the finished piece brought tears of joy to the person who commissioned me.
★ For fun, my current love and joy is learning about game design, and I am creating a game within Unity.
★ I've been learning anything and everything about resin! I've made bookmarks and want to start making earrings.
★ I also design my own line of merchandise and table at markets through my art business, SoharaDraws.
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🎓 Education
I currently am finishing my masters degree at Harvard University in Learning, Design, Innovation, and Technology with a specific interest in game design and accessibility design. I have my Bachelor's Degree in Cognitive Brain Science and minors in Studio Art and Art History from Tufts University.
🎈 Fun Facts
★ In another life I was a neuroscientist studying neurodevelopmental disorders in children, a children's librarian, or a marine biologist studying jellyfish.
★ I love indoor and outdoor rock climbing and have been passionate about it for over nine years. I am a facilitator once a month!
★ One of my favorite past-times is creating communities and connecting people to one another including creating book clubs, board game clubs, climbing chats, etc.