Bea is a creative director and a CMU Portugal Dual Degree PhD candidate in Human-Computer Interaction. She works on ocean literacy games that foster a sense of interconnectedness with the ocean. She also uses photography to reflect on people’s embodied experiences of the sea. Her research focuses on posthuman HCI, hydrocommons and more-than-human entanglements.
Before returning to academia, she worked internationally as a creative director for 2 decades. Starting in advertising, she then transitioned to environmental campaigning, where she worked on ideating communication campaigns for NGOs such as Greenpeace and WWF.
