Victoria Sgarro
Staff Product Designer, Public Spaces Incubator
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolVictoria Sgarro is a Staff Product Designer with eight years of experience crafting user-centered products across journalism, social platforms, and civic design, currently leading the Public Spaces Incubator at New_Public in San Diego. Her career spans roles at Meta, The Atlantic, Axios, and First Look Media, where she translated complex editorial and social needs into intuitive product experiences. She blends a humanities-driven lens—BA in Comparative Literature and photography studies—with an MA in Economics, giving her design work a rare mix of narrative sensitivity and data-informed strategy. Known for moving quickly from research to high-fidelity prototypes, she advances public-facing tools that balance accessibility, community needs, and measurable impact. Her portfolio highlights a cross-disciplinary practice that leverages visual storytelling and user research to shape emerging public-space technologies. Outside product work she brings a global curiosity—evidenced by study at Fudan University—that informs culturally aware design decisions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Summer Language Institute Chinese, Summer Language Institute Chinese at Fudan UniversityPost-Baccalaureate Study Photography, Post-Baccalaureate Study Photography at Studio Arts College InternationalBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Comparative Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. LouisMaster of Arts (M.A.) Economics, Master of Arts (M.A.) Economics at The New School
Spanish, Italian, Chinese
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
torisgarro/torisgarro.github.io
Mar 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:308 commits, 1 PR, 311 pushes in 4 years 11 months
torisgarro/At-What-Cost
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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