Joanne is a Graphic Designer at the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center, where she collaborates with content experts, researchers, and policy analysts to transform complex ideas into compelling visual narratives. She specializes in designing clear, impactful visuals across multiple platforms, including distance-learning materials, websites, wireframes, interactive PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, and other digital and print-based assets. With a proactive leadership approach, Joanne uncovers insights that ignite creative opportunities while ensuring brand integrity.
Previously, Joanne worked with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to translate complex data and research findings into accessible, engaging visuals. She contributed to projects focused on postsecondary education access, degree completion, and labor market outcomes, as well as the Post-9/11 GI Bill project, which examined veterans’ use of benefits and attainment of postsecondary credentials. Additionally, she developed resources on social-emotional learning (SEL) and youth development, collaborating with schools, districts, foundations, and national youth-serving organizations to support after-school programs that foster positive growth.
Joanne earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia. She lives in Glocester, RI, with her husband, two daughters, and a menagerie of animals on their small homestead. They raise wool sheep and are continually exploring creative, sustainable ways to utilize the wool they produce.
