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Case Study

HIV Hey, It's Viral
Youth Health Education

website design
cms
website development

Launch Date: April, 2010

Condom Sense: A Real Life Education was a partnership project between Howard Brown Health Center, Beyondmedia Education and About Face Theatre. It brought sex-positive LGBTQ-inclusive educational curriculum to high school classrooms in Illinois and beyond aiming to change the conversation about AIDS in collaboration with Chicago youth living with HIV. Beyondmedia produced a 20-minute video and website which I designed for this initiative.

INVOLVEMENT

  • Website Design
  • CMS Training
  • UX/UI

TECHNOLOGY

  • Expression Engine CMS

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Creating Alternatives

— An Answer to Abstinance Only Sex-Ed

I developed a custom full-featured website using Expression Engine that housed classroom curriculum for teachers developed by Howard Brown Health Center, articles from young writers, and events such as film screenings and theater shows for the About Face Theatre production, Fast Forward (a play about the challenges of being gay in high school and the sex education crisis in America).

Blog

Lifting Young Voices

— A platform for peer perspectives

Young journalists, writers and filmmakers could submit pieces to a multimedia blog to share their perspectives and gather feedback in a moderated comment section. These included news articles, creative writing, audio recordings and videos.

Resources

Accompanying the blog was a sortable Resource section to connect young people with in-person services available to them.

Fire This Time Fund
Chain of Change

A Chicago based digital media studio.
  • Website Design & Development
  • Photography
  • Video Editing
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Digital Marketing + Management
  • Content Management System Migration
Happily working with
  • Squarespace
  • Shopify
  • Github Pages (Jekyll)
  • CraftCMS
  • Webflow
  • Wordpress + WooCommerce
  • Wix

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