Yours truly, ft. my most recent public art project – a rat trap beautified for the Rat City Arts Festival ✨
hello hello 👋
I’m Jillian (they/she), a Boston-based design strategist and graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a BFA in Industrial Design.
My experience spans innovation and service design across both the public and private sectors, in-house and consulting. I currently support the VA team at MO, a human-centered design focused government contractor. Previously, I was an Senior Envisioner at EPAM Continuum, a design and innovation firm, and a Design Strategist at Gensler. Before transitioning into consulting, I worked on in-house innovation and design teams at Blue Cross Blue Shield, Johnson & Johnson, Mercedes-Benz, and Fidelity Investments.
My skills include Design Thinking, UX/UI design, user research, storytelling, illustration, and brand design.
While design is my professional focus, my personal interests include crafting comics, hosting niche themed dinner parties, and organizing community art meetups.
🗯️ comics credentials 🗯️
Workshops
Forms & Folds: Innovative Shapes for Zines
Crucial Comix | April 2025
Experimental Sequential Art
MIT | CMS 306 | April 2025
Zines as Self Expression & Activism
Holyoke High School | March 2025
Panels
Comics at MassArt
MassArt | March 2025
Decoding Design
Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo | December 2024
Awards & Recognition
Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo Mini-Grant 2024, 2020
Mass Cultural Council Cultural Sector Recovery Grant, 2023
Artist in Residence, Directangle Press, 2023
Stores & Libraries
Massachusetts College of Art & Design
Radiator Comics
RISD Fleet Library
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts
Comics Fairs
RISD Unbound | 2025
Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo | 2022, 2024
Boston Art Book Fair | 2022
Public Art
Rat Trap Artist
Rat City Arts Festival, 2024
Paint Box Artist
City of Boston, 2022
Electrical Box Artist
Northampton, 2021
Experience Chinatown Muralist
Pao Arts Center, 2021