past
work
- kernel magazine cover design, editorial illustration · 2023
- enterprise tech implementation for real estate company, pmo & project strategy · 2025 – ongoing
- digital transformation for government agency, service design & user research · 2024
- wealth management strategy for major canadian bank, framework design & product vision · 2023
- enterprise system redesign for municipal transit agency, information architecture · 2023-24
- market analysis & strategic vision for provincial cannabis agency · 2023
- brand identity for toronto doughnut economics · 2023
writing
chapbooks
- The Nearest Sweetest Thing, Anstruther Press · 2021
selected publications
- The fact that green beans grow like two meters tall, ALOCASIA Magazine · forthcoming
- Breakfast at T&T, PRISM International · 2022
- I promise the thunderbolt never misses, THIS Magazine · 2022
- Get in the Robot, Salt Hill Journal · 2022
- Metamorphosis, Homology Lit · 2021
- Three Poems, The Rumpus · 2021
- Three Poems, Send My Love To Anyone · 2021
anthologies
- Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis, Coach House Books · 2020
awards
- Marguerite R. Dow Canadian Heritage Award, Western University · 2022
- Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Gold Medal, New York · 2018
- Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest, Third Place, Ottawa · 2018
gamedev
all of my games are available on itch.io. interactive fiction and bitsy games exploring memory, belonging, and everyday magic.
- notes from a bubble tea shop, a bitsy game about tea with friends, telling the truth about belonging, and how memories can be both soft and sharp · 2020
- C.R.U.D.D.Y., sci-fi interactive fiction awarded Gold Medal by Scholastic Art and Writing Awards · 2018
- the now we've named, tests the player's coffee making ability in exchange for hearing their customer's stories
- the only other sound's the sweep, a bitsy exploration of memory
- Morgan and his little sister Rabbit, an interactive poem published in INTERMISSIONS
experience
- senior management consultant @ kpmg · sept 2022–present
- freelance designer for mission-driven organizations · may 2022–present
- external mentorship program lead @ kpmg network of women · sept 2022–present
- built notion resources community to 27k followers on tumblr · 2020–present
education
- bachelor of arts, honors business administration @ ivey business school, western university · 2022
- 3.9/4.0 gpa, dean's honour list 2019, 2020
elsewhere
- jessicale.net – writing about work and creativity
- dessin.substack.com – reading blog
- noodledesk.net – coding journey & small apps built by hand