Visual Facilitation & Graphics for Superfund Engagement

I developed these visuals to support public meetings engaging community members, businesses, other stakeholders, and Tribal representatives with staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency about cleanup of the Duwamish Waterway Superfund Sites. I was part of a team of facilitators at Triangle Associates who convened these recurring meetings, which were held online during the pandemic via Zoom and included live interpretation into Spanish, Vietnamese and Khmer. By integrating technical data and engineering drawings with my own illustrations and design work, I helped participants understand complex concepts that inform the rationale behind cleanup decisions, so that they could be empowered to give input on the design plans.

Slides I created for EPA’s presentations, incorporating engineering diagrams from the cleanup plans with my own drawings, to demonstrate how the diagrams relate to the river in real life. These visuals were created to help community members follow along and understand the cleanup design process.

A slide I designed for EPA to explain in plain English how the results of chemical sampling in the river are represented in the cleanup plans and how the results inform the map of designated cleanup areas.

Additional slides to explain the many phases of the decades-long Superfund cleanup process and how cleanup construction is timed to avoid disrupting fish passage and tribal fishing activities.