Hi! I’m Jamie. Welcome to my website!
I’ve been an artist for as long as I can remember. At the ripe age of four, I found a blank sheet of paper to be the most magical thing in the world. I could just about draw a blob that barely resembled a dinosaur, and that was incredible. More incredible still were the people—and mermaids!—that I could create at six. And what happened over a decade later, at age 20, was nothing short of the most incredible: I took my tablet pen and posted a political illustration to Twitter that went viral (earning me 16k likes on the post and thousands of followers on Instagram in a day).
But art has never been my only interest. At age nine, the magic of the blank sheet of paper branched off and became lined. I bought a notebook with three kittens on it and wrote a story about them with no pictures, just words. At age 13, I started my first novel that I showed to all my friends, and at age 17, I finished writing 150,000 words of what would become my first complete novel draft.
My work experience reflects this split of passion. I interned for UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts (HFA) Division, in which I’ve held three positions. In all of these internships—Editorial Intern, Webmaster, and Copyediting Intern—I’ve worked with words: making events into words, reworking research through words, writing and editing and re-editing with words. And yet, I’ve also jumped on amazing opportunities to design images for event promotion and even to personally create over a dozen potential icons for HFA to use on its website and social media, out of which the official design was chosen with input from faculty and the Dean of the Humanities and Fine Arts.
Right out of college, I worked as the Brand Editorial Intern for Brand Design and Associate Copywriter for Brand Digital at Sonos, where I adapted my tools to the art of copywriting and design for marketing campaigns, social media channels, and other digital communications. I spent two years working as the Marketing Associate at an e-commerce company called Cleverific, where I expanded my copywriting and design skill sets, and added SEO and video editing to my arsenal. More recently, I worked part-time at the Santa Barbara Zoo as their Advancement & Event Coordinator, and spent nearly year years working as Assistant to the Department Chair at the Department of Technology Management at UCSB.
I’m always looking for new opportunities to grow as an artist, writer, and communicator. I hope to continue to expand my skillset and be able to come back to this page with updates!
