DREAM

Creative Role & Responsibilities

While working at Anomaly as a Designer, I was able to help create a brochure for one of our pro-bono clients; DREAM. in 2008, they opened up DREAM Charter School to more deeply serve the community of East Harlem. Since then, DREAM has focused on helping kids achieve physical and mental success by supporting them and ensuring they achieve a higher education while preparing them for college. DREAM tapped us to help them develop a brochure to help secure funding for their next phase of construction at 20 Bruckner which would allow 1,300 PreK-12 DREAM scholars to join this new chapter of DREAM. I was responsible for sourcing images and editing photography, page and content layout, InDesign Mechanical, and producing a limited run of printed brochures along with a digital version for investors.

Design Skills: Page Layout, Typography, Digital Publishing, Print Design, Adobe Indesign.

In 1991, DREAM, then Harlem RBI, was founded when a group of volunteers transformed an abandoned, garbage-strewn lot into two baseball diamonds for the youth in East Harlem. Over time, they began to address the greater needs of the community, like low literacy and high school graduation rates, through summer and after-school enrichment. It soon became clear to them that out-of-school time was simply not enough. In order to have a lasting, long-term impact on kids and the community, they needed more time with their students, especially during the school day. So in 2008, they opened up DREAM Charter School to more deeply serve the community of East Harlem.

Since then, DREAM has focused on helping kids achieve physical and mental success by supporting them and ensuring they achieve a higher education while preparing them for college. DREAM is also dedicated to support their students social and emotional needs where they learn to advocate for themselves and others.