KAREN HODO

Design production and systems for non-profit + mission-based organizations to understand, to use, and to manage.

I help mission-driven organizations create scalable digital and print assets, simplify their visuals, strengthen internal and external communications, and maintain consistency across departments, platforms, and materials

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

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

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.

One for One Chicago

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

  • 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.