Passion Projects
Here are some frisbee-related designs that I’ve created over the years. I included them to show more of my inner creativity and personality. <3
FEATURED PROJECT
“Galty Nattys”
I love ultimate frisbee, but goaltimate is my true passion. In 2020, at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, I designed these jerseys for my women’s goaltimate (i.e. “Galty”) team. We didn’t get to compete in Goaltimate Nationals that year, but this remains one of my favorite jersey designs to date.
FEATURED PROJECT
“She’s Not That Fast”
In 2018, I produced a documentary style video to help address issues of gender inequity in our ultimate frisbee community here in New Orleans. Our aim was to eventually be able to recruit and retain more women. Over time, we hoped to be able to host more "true mixed" leagues and support a more spirited and competitive environment for all. The video was edited by 8AM Focus.
You can watch it here.
Our video garnered almost 6k views on YouTube and sparked national attention on platforms like Reddit and Facebook.
FEATURED PROJECT
NODA Equity Committee
"After the debut of the 'She's Not That Fast' video in December 2018 at the NODA Holiday Party / Annual Meeting was the idea to create an Equity Committee, originally called the Gender Equity Committee. We had our inaugural meeting in January 2019 and discussed what we wanted to come out of the committee. Ultimately, it was to improve the satisfaction of all players in the league. The first step was data collection and understanding where members were at in their satisfaction with the league, and we eventually presented to the board and made recommendations on what people wanted and ways to improve leagues moving forward."
— Courtney Foster, NODA Equity Committee member
Along with others, I helped create the NODA Equity Committee. We worked hard to make minor improvements to improve the NODA league experience but soon realized we had made critical errors. For starters, we comprised a committee of all white women and the occasional white man, rooting ourselves in white-feminist white supremacy. Secondly, because of the catch-all nature of the word "equity," people assumed we were the authority on any and all inequities associated with running a community organization. When asked to address diversity issues, recruitment, financial scholarship determinations, etc., we quickly realized we were inappropriately tasked, which made our efforts often feel performative rather than intentioned work around DEI. Lastly, because we did not initially seek out underrepresented community members, our committee quickly became an echo chamber for the same voices and opinions. Instead of seeking out their input, we expected them to seek us out if they had something to say.
Although the equity committee is not currently operating as initially conceived, it felt important to include this note in my portfolio as meaningful work. It seemed necessary to acknowledge the imperfections in our efforts despite being well-intentioned and commit to being better when reckoning with past mistakes, learning from them, and building back better. -H
FEATURED PROJECT
LSU Women’s Ultimate
“Flood Zone”
Original Flood Zone logo design, with my feedback
My logo design update
FEATURED PROJECT
“Muses”
In 2009, my sophomore year at Tulane University, we rebranded our women’s college team from “La Femme Fatale” to “Muses,” the first-ever all-women Mardi Gras parade krewe here in New Orleans. At the time, I had no concept of Adobe Illustrator, so I used found images, pencil, paper, and stencil to create my first ever jersey design. This beloved 13 year old design is still being used by the Tulane Muses team today. : )
