gina cairney
CONTENT DESIGNER
STRATEGIST
WRITER
Project Spotlight
About
My name is Gina and I’m a UX professional. After a decade of working in the nonprofit education sector as a marketing-communications specialist, I switched careers to UX. I currently work at a for-profit, SaaS company that serves the events and hospitality industries. When I’m not working, you can find me either engrossed in a book, writing a story, walking around the city, or riding my bike Rocinante (from Don Quixote but The Expanse works, too).
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Pubs and Talks
Escalation Exercise: A Content Buy-In Workshop, LavaCon, 2025
How a Content Designer Collaborates in Figma, Bootcamp (synidcated), Dec. 2024
How a Content Designer Collaborates With a Product Designer, Bootcamp (syndicated), Sep. 2023
Object-Oriented UX: Discussion With Content Strategists Leveraging OOUX, Content Strategy Seattle, Sep. 2022
Experience
Cvent, UX, since 2021
nXu Education, Marketing, 2020-2022
Uncommon Schools, Marketing and communications, 2018-2021
Education Week, Online news production, 2012-2016
Education & Certifications
M.A., Sociology, New School for Social Research
B.A., Journalism, University of Maryland - College Park
Conversation Design for Chatbots, UX Content Collective, 2024
OOUX Strategist, OOUX Academy, 2023
UX Design Foundations, Parsons, 2022
Front End Web Development, Udacity, 2018