About

Hello! I'm Ashley Kang (she/her). I use design, code, and pedagogy to ask questions and build narratives that connect people, culture, and information. As a teen on Tumblr, NYU Gallatin undergrad, public and after school educator, intern at a creative technology startup, tech apprentice, remote web design and dev consultant, and Square Code Camper, I've been convinced the coolest thing is to learn how to use technologies to discover and pursue what you care about.

These days, I'm taking postbac coursework in computer science and working as a university marketing team's first web developer fellow. Ask me about designing my own interdisciplinary major in Visual + Digital Culture and being part of a technology learning collective known as Color Coded or send me a Frankie Knuckles set I haven't heard yet.

Into: Accessibility, privacy, zines, diasporic foodways, student and community radio, mediocre rom coms

Elsewhere:

• Mailbox
• Resume
• GitHub
• LinkedIn

Credits: Designed and developed by yours truly, layout help from SuperHi, typeset with Fugaz One and Work Sans from Google Fonts, compressed with Squoosh and Optimizilla

Projects

Currently:

• Building webpages and emails for Summer and Fall 2019 enrollment and researching design systems

Previously:

• Wrote Python scripts for Turtle graphics, image processing, and Autodesk Maya
• Built the pages that highlight the purpose, work, and staff of CLEAN Carwash LA, Color Coded's first client and co-led a training that equipped them to update their website around their main fundraising event
• Built a form for recommending a business to be featured on Locales, Color Coded's first project
• Designed and facilitated after school photography programs for middle school students as well as a workshop with artist dana washington
• Co-designed and co-facilitated a #PrivacyIsAHumanRight workshop on digital security and privacy, the first in Color Coded's #CommunityTechnology Workshop series

Someday:

• Get the boba emoji approved
• Inbox zero

Etc.

On my radar:

• EP13 — Casually Spinning (feat. DJ Spinorita) (The Fox Crate Podcast)
• Electrocuties (Amy Wibowo)
• Fun, Friendly Computer Science (Mercedes Bernard)
• "Good challenges vs. bad challenges" (Jessica Harllee)

See also: Rothko Toast, a blog I started in undergrad