Commissioned illustrations for The Baltimore Banner and ProPublica
George Wylesol for The Baltimore Banner: "He pleaded guilty to attempted murder in Baltimore. Then he was prosecuted for murder."
Mai Ly Degnan for The Baltimore Banner: "Maryland promised to give more cash to poor families last year. It still hasn't."
Evangeline Gallagher for The Baltimore Banner: "How a man killed himself on suicide watch in the Harford County jail"
Evangeline Gallagher for The Baltimore Banner: "Why is the suicide rate so high in this Maryland jail?"
George Wylesol for The Baltimore Banner: "Is Baltimore jury duty working? 20,000 summonses, but more than a third don't show up"
Yifan Luo for The Baltimore Banner: "Tours highlight civil rights legacy in Upton's Marble Hill"
Stephanie Shafer for The Baltimore Banner: "Baltimore scientists are changing the face of aquaculture. Are farm-raised blue crabs next?"
Melissa Garden for The Baltimore Banner: "Black Baltimore couples look to transform farmland to honor Black foodways"
Book Karnjanakit for The Baltimore Banner: "Why the masterpiece profile you created on Bumble may not be getting read"
Julianna Brion: Impact page for The Baltimore Banner
Julianna Brion: Games page for The Baltimore Banner
Julianna Brion: About Us page for The Baltimore Banner
Julianna Brion: People and Culture page for The Baltimore Banner
Julianna Brion: Support Us page for The Baltimore Banner
Anuj Shrestha for ProPublica: “These Children Fled Afghanistan Without Their Families. They’re Stuck in U.S. Custody."
Anuj Shrestha for ProPublica: “These Children Fled Afghanistan Without Their Families. They’re Stuck in U.S. Custody."
Illustrated reporting and series commissioned for The Baltimore Banner and ProPublica
Illustrated interviews by MICA visual journalism students for The Baltimore Banner
A collaboration with Professor Priyanka Kumar, in which we designed an illustrated interview assignment for her students which focused on behind-the-scenes people and jobs in Baltimore City. I continued art directing five students who wanted to complete their work for publication.
Hayley Thornton-Kennedy for The Baltimore Banner, “How I got my toddler a COVID vaccine in Baltimore City.”
Hayley pitched this personal comic to the Banner and I worked with her on the art, language and formatting for website and social media.
Daniel Liévano for ProPublica, “San Francisco Rations Housing by Scoring Homeless People’s Trauma.”
For this follow up to ProPublica’s first piece on homelessness in San Francisco, I prioritized maintaining some visual consistency with the artwork that Bianca Bagnarelli made for the previous story. Daniel Liévano used color and paneling to evoke the first story while bringing his unique approach to the assignment.
Bianca Bagnarelli for ProPublica, “In San Francisco, Hundreds of Homes for the Homeless Sit Vacant”
I sought out Bianca’s sequential language to visually convey the experience of waiting for permanent housing.
Daniel Hertzberg, visual explainer for ProPublica, “America’s Food Safety System Failed to Stop a Salmonella Epidemic. It’s Still Making People Sick”
In this illustrated explainer, accuracy was just as important as clarity. Cut-away style drawings give readers a glimpse into, and basic understanding of, the machinery and steps used in the chicken industry. I collaborated with ProPublica’s designers and reporters to sequence the images into two scrolling segments in the main article.
