Amanda Sanchez
✻ Design Researcher @ Nava PBC • Civic Techie • Chicanx • First-Gen • Yinzer ✻
- Role
- Designer Researcher at Nava
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Amanda Sanchez
Heyo! Call me Sánchez *: ٩(‿)۶ Multi-Disciplinary Researcher & Designer…
Experience
Designer Researcher
May 2022 — Present
Currently Research Lead for the Department of Justice - Civil Rights Division. Previously, Design Researcher for Massachusetts Paid Family & Medical Leave project:* Led year-long initiative targeting Underserved Communities, producing prioritized recommendations to enhance PFML program utilization for marginalized populations.* Conducted qualitative research with marginalized communities, leveraging trauma-informed approaches, multilingual methods, and collaboration with community advocates.* Guided user-centered design in scrum team, ensuring design quality, equity, and adherence to best practices and USWDS system.* Collaborated with product managers and engineers in agile environment, driving feature delivery.* Developed documentation for best practices during epic phases.* Devised thought framework with product leadership, enabling third-party leave applications.* Streamlined usability research with advanced tools, templates for efficiency.* Spearheaded usability testing for employer portal, improving data accuracy.* Provided actionable recommendations from continuous research findings to leadership and implementation teams.
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Design
2019 — 2021
University of Illinois at Chicago
Bachelor of Design
2013 — 2017
Skills
- Ios
- Lightroom
- Html
- Video Production
- Social Media
- After Effects
- Photoshop
- Css
- Letterpress
- Javascript
- Premiere
- Microsoft Office
- Windows Os
- Indesign
- Mac Os X
- Processing
- Dreamweaver
- Illustrator
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