Hello Everyone, 

It's my great pleasure to welcome Michelle Nguyen to the User Experience team. Michelle joins us from Tenderloin Economic Development Project[1], where she was a Marketing Communications Specialist and a Graphic Designer. At TEDP, Michelle redesigned their website and was responsible in maintaining their social media networks and online presence. She also served as a community advocate with Mid-Market tech companies and Tenderloin business owners, and in turn successfully developed Tasting the Tenderloin - a series of lunches held at restaurants within the neighborhood. Attendees and sponsors came from One Kings Lane, PeerSpace, Spotify, Square, WeWork, and Zendesk. 

Michelle joins the Wikimedia Foundation as a Visual Design Fellow, and will be working on projects related to the User Interface standardization and providing visual design support for other team projects.

Michelle graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication Design in 2012. Since graduation, she has been working as a freelance designer in the realm of branding, animation, and signage[2]. 

She is excited to be part of the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission. When she is not at work, Michelle practices hand lettering styles, bike and skateboard around the city, and nerd out on vegan recipes (even though she eats everything including pork blood and duck embryos).

Michelle will start today, Jan 6 working from the SF office, and will be seated next to May on the 3rd floor. She will be working here with us through July. Please come say Hi!

[1] www.tedpsf.org

[2] michellemeng.com