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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
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💫 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.

Get in touch! Happy to chat about design

or the latest book you're reading

or art

climbing is cool too.

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