Summary
Christina Baird is an empathetic design leader with 11 years of hands-on experience and 12 years in interactive and product design, now directing Interactive Design & Data Visualization at the Urban Institute. She specializes in turning complex data and policy concepts into elegant, impactful visual experiences while managing multiple projects from conception through launch. Known for clear stakeholder communication, she bridges strategy and craft to ensure design decisions are both persuasive and evidence-based. Christina’s background as a UX generalist gives her fluency across research, interaction, and visual design, enabling pragmatic solutions that scale across teams. An unspoken strength is her aptitude for distilling messy, technical datasets into immediately understandable narratives that drive decision-making.
11 years of coding experience