I am a human-centered designer, strategist, metalsmith, listener, and creator. I greatly value experiencing life in others' shoes and use my design skills to catalyze that empathy into change.

I am a natural leader & collaborator and thrive in complex, deep problem spaces of human experience and interaction, which led me to create an individualized major in Human-Centered Design at Claremont McKenna College '21.

In my free time you can find me making music (previously as the co-president of The After School Specials A Cappella group), sewing clothes, backpacking, making people (and myself) laugh, or reading some fascinating person's autobiography.

asmith21@cmc.edu