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chelsea.conrad@washpost.com

Hello!

I'm a Senior Designer and Art Director at The Washington Post, working on editorial features and interactive visual storytelling. I enjoy making complex ideas feel clear, approachable, and visually engaging. Before this, I designed brands for podcast, and educational tools for public media journalists at NPR. I got my start in nonprofit community development work back in Tennessee. I hold an MFA in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. My background spans newsrooms, mission-driven orgs, and creative studios — all of which shape how I think about design and its role in telling meaningful stories.