gina cairney

CONTENT DESIGNER
STRATEGIST
WRITER

Project Spotlight

Content and terminology audit

Cvent | 2025

Browse-first workflow

Cvent | 2023

Capstone: NYC High Schools Directory Mobile App

Parsons UX Design Bootcamp | 2022

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

Facilitator, LavaCon 2025, Oct. 2025

How a Content Designer Collaborates in Figma

Bootcamp (syndicated), Dec. 2024

How a Content Designer Collaborates With a Product Designer

Bootcamp (syndicated), Sept. 2023

Object-Oriented UX: Discussion With Content Strategists Leveraging OOUX

Content Strategy Seattle, Sept. 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., New School for Social Research
B.A., 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