LET’S MAKE COOL THINGS

Hello! You can call me Steph.

Creative Director / Art Director / Persistant Maker / Late Night Writer/ Aspiring Naturalist / Forever Student

Originally from the mountains of Colorado, I can now be found among the trees of Minnesota. When I’m not crafting ideas for clients, I like to spend my time making things with my hands, obsessing over an eclectic range of curiosities, reading graphic novels, fermenting everything, and foraging through the woods. I don’t believe in being bored, but I do believe in the power of a good question and being good toward people. I once spent a summer dissecting thousands of snails for parasites as a recovering engineering student. Now I try to positively engineer culture. In my past life I helped launch brands at Fallon, had intermittent hits across the Carmichael Lynch brand portfolio, and loved all things Subaru.

Currently, I’m proudly building at Vital Proteins.

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People seem to think I’m pretty okay at my job, too.

  • Subaru, Culligan Water, Horizon Organic, Larabar, HR Block, Talenti, Red Baron, Fanatics, Amstel Light, KAYAK, Big Ten Network, Polaris, Penumbra Theater and others. Ask me for details on my involvement.

  • Publications: Adweek, Adage, AdForum. Bustle, The Drum, Creativity Online, The Egotist, and other industry specific places I can’t remember.

    AdFed The Show: Best of Show for Data, 4 Gold Pins, 5 Silver Pins, 2 Bronze Pins

    PRSA: Silver Anvil Award of Excellence

    One Show Young Ones: 2 Silver Pencils, 2 Merits

    Dairy Center for the Arts: Best Art Directed Portfolio, Judges Choice Award

    NSF Grant: Climate Change and Film

  • Selling work, building relationships, Adobe Creative Suite, conceptual and strategic creative, new biz pitching, selecting the perfect GIF for any mood, collaborating with people much more talented than myself, supporting young creatives and peers, mentorship, systems thinking, illustration, and maybe some other things. Let’s talk.

    • 2023 Young Shits Judge

    • 2023 Boundaryless Creative Mentor

    • Crowbar Award Team Mentor

    • Reformatted the Carmichael Lynch internship program.

    • Created an internal brief competition to allow Junior Creatives and Strategists to work together and stretch their creative muscles.

    TLDR; Most of my free-time is devoted to helping creatives grow. Of all the things I do, this is the thing I think matters most.