I turn complex research and data into content that reaches people, across digital, visual, and multilingual channels. Four years doing this at Xinhua, in international development, and in my own work.
This page is a working application for the Knowledge Management & Communications Consultant role at the Development Impact Group (DECDI). It begins with a sample communications set built from DECDI's own LEADS initiative, the kind of products I'd produce week to week, followed by selected work that demonstrates reach, multilingual dissemination, and craft in data visualization.
Below: a sample of what I'd produce for your team, and selected work.
Washington, DC · English, Mandarin, Spanish
Overview
A sample communications set
Built from DECDI's own LEADS initiative, the kind of products I'd produce week to week: infographics, report charts, social cards, a newsletter, and a design system, each one traced to a public World Bank source.
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financing reviewed
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projects engaged
Hover a city for the workshop detail · circle size = financing reviewed
Interactive · Live
A method that travels
In two years LEADS went from one African region to four convenings across three continents. Hover the map to read each workshop. Every figure is drawn from the World Bank's own LEADS pages.
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financing reviewed
across two regional cohorts
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projects engaged
adaptive, evidence-led delivery
up to 0×
greater impact
trial-and-adopt methods
$0M
efficiency gains
at Cape Town alone
The full set
The same story, shaped for the channel it lives in: a report page, a poster, a LinkedIn post, an inbox.
An infographic distilling $18B in financing reviewed and the Learn–Adapt–Scale method into a single 20-second read, in the visual language of a flagship report.
A report-style chart sheet: a coverage-gap waffle, a cost-vs-impact comparison, and DIME's global footprint, built to DIME Analytics' visualization conventions.
The DIME signature: impact-evaluation charts
Coefficient plots and event studies are the chart types that signal a credible impact evaluation. These are built to DIME Analytics conventions and can be produced in R, Stata, or Python. Illustrative example.
A sample issue built to the newsletter's real remit: lead story, events & courses, new research, and from the blog, shown in the inbox.
As a one-pager
Infographic · Innovation
Research, Shipped as AI
A product-grid infographic on DIME's AI portfolio (ImpactAI, ZeroHungerAI, EconBERTa and more), showing how a 30+ person team turns rigorous research into systems that governments use.
Made for the Bureaucracy Lab
Infographic · your team's work
The data behind better government
A spec piece on the Bureaucracy Lab, the public-administration initiative this team's KM Specialist leads, built from its public Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators. Made to show I can pick up your flagship and make it land.
Event communications, end to end
Spec work · Conference
A launch kit for the Development Impact Conference
A complete event-communications package built around the Development Impact Conference: a pre-event invitation email, an agenda card, an event poster, and ready-to-post social copy, all in one consistent visual system. Prepared as a private sample for the team.
A design asset library, built fast
A custom set of 50 flat illustrations in the World Bank house style, ready for decks, social, and reports. I generated these with an AI image workflow and then hand-edited every tile, so the set is original and copyright-clean. Both sheets together took about 20 minutes, a pace I can keep up week to week.
Sample work created for this application using publicly available World Bank data. Not official World Bank publications.
How this was made
A workflow, not a one-off
Every sample above came out of a documented, source-checked pipeline, and I can work in either of two toolchains, depending on the product.
Workflow 1 · Traditional
Stata · R · Python
Publication-ready statistical charts in DIME Analytics' own stack: direct labels, zero baselines, no chart junk. Reproducible and rigorous.
Workflow 2 · AI-assisted
Claude Code · HTML / SVG
Composed infographics, social cards, and newsletters: web-native, on-brand, and fast, with every figure traced to a public World Bank source.
Runnable code and full data provenance for both workflows.
Selected work
Reaching real audiences
Audience reach · Fig.meme
From a viral post to a million plays
A browser tool I designed and shipped. Its debut post reached 163,000 views on RedNote; the tech team at Douyin (China's TikTok) then brought it onto the platform, where one video passed 1,000,000 plays and 55,000 likes. The site still runs 300 to 400 daily users.
An interactive experience that turns a 300-page report into a 70-second cinematic story, playable in seven languages. Built for the WBL 2026 "Accelerating Development: Ideas for Impact" edition.
An independent writing sample on DIME's AI portfolio (ImpactAI, SocialAI, ZeroHungerAI), written as a clear, decision-focused brief on getting evidence to policymakers without losing rigor.
On Xinhua's Global Digital Desk, my job was to take a news report and turn it into a scrollable visual explainer a general audience could actually follow. A few from my ongoing "Science, Explained" series are below. Each is in Chinese, so the note under it explains what it covers (scroll each frame to read the whole piece).
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A 2025 Nobel Prize, explained: how the immune system's "safety guards" stop the body from attacking itself. source report ↗
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Earthquake-rescue technology: the drones, sensors, and robots that help find survivors faster.
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How AI actually works: a plain-language explainer of the technology behind the headlines.
Research dissemination · IBSS, XJTLU
Turning a research dataset into a story
As research-team lead, I led a 20+ person team building a dataset linking 308 Chinese cities with 1,700+ international partners, then distilled it into a single conference research poster. This was the early-stage study I later expanded into my AOM 2025 paper.
Four years across data journalism, nonprofit communications, and applied policy research, with the quantitative training to read the evidence and the design skills to make it land.
Communications products
Newsletters · reports · presentations · social media · web content · infographics · audience-tailored materials
Data visualization
Charts, infographics, and data viz in Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, Python, Stata, and R, to DIME Analytics conventions
English, Mandarin, and Spanish (reading & literary translation), with production experience across seven languages
Tools
Canva · Adobe Creative Suite · Mailchimp · Figma · SharePoint · web CMS · AI image generation
Recognition
ACM CHI 2026 poster (paper, video) · 2nd place, MIT policy hackathon · EU AI Office Article 50 respondent
Full experience, education (NYU Wagner MSPP · MITx · University of Liverpool), and certifications are detailed in the CV.
Built end-to-end
When I say I make it, I mean all of it
At AI4Life I designed and built the Vibo education platform end to end: the brand and character system, the original music, the game mechanics, and the app itself. I also ran the communications for our flagship youth program.
Mascot and full character cast, original music, game mechanics, and the app itself, all designed and built by me.
Vibo · AI education platform
Designed and built end to end
Brand and characters, original music, the game mechanics, and the React/TypeScript app, all built by me.
AllStar is a short AI experience I designed inside Vibo for AllStars, a Boston nonprofit serving children with special needs. It teaches kids to write AI image-generation prompts, and we ran it live at their expo.
Live at the AllStars expo, Boston. Tap a photo to flip.
An event I organized and ran at AI4Life. I handled recruitment, the posters and promotional content, the training workshop, judge coordination, and hosting the live awards ceremony. 50+ participants across two cohorts.
“DECDI closes the gap between intention and impact. My work has been the same bridge from the communications side: turning rigorous research into content that reaches the people who act on it, across languages and channels.”
The full CV and statement of interest accompany my application. Happy to share them directly, or to talk through any of the work above.
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