KAREN HODO

I build design systems for non-profit + mission-based organizations to understand, to use, and to manage.

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I help mission-driven organizations simplify their visuals, strengthen internal and external communications, and maintain consistency across departments, platforms, and design assets;

All made for your team to manage confidently on their own.

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Services

  • Audits, surveys, and usability reviews that reveal communication gaps to get your team on the same page

  • Templates, campaigns, and design systems that keep your messaging consistent, even as teams and tools change.

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Howard Brown Health

FULL-TIME GRAPHIC DESIGNER + COMMS ASSOCIATE

Internal and external campaign design and production

  • Giving Tuesday

  • 2024 Pride

  • Health initiative design assets

  • Monthly social awareness social media campaigns

  • Fulfilling organization-wide design production needs

Internal operations

  • EPIC onboarding materials

  • Organization-wide monthly printed calendar updates

  • Clinic and administrative form redesign

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One for One Chicago

Digital strategy and web redesign for a youth-focused nonprofit, turning stakeholder feedback into a cohesive, accessible online presence.

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  • I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.

    Michael Bierut

Awards & Recognitions

  • Speaker – Researcher – Presenter

    Each year, the NCORE-ISCORE Project Office accepts applications from students interested in attending NCORE. These students attend NCORE in May. In the fall, the students complete research projects in U ST 321—NCORE Scholars: Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. In the spring they use their research to plan and present at ISCORE.

  • SCPS offers scholarship opportunities for graduate students and awards generally cover about 20% of total tuition costs.