Before transitioning into a leadership position, Alisha honed her skills and expertise as a product designer, making significant contributions to projects across diverse teams, including IBM Cloud and Red Hat Marketplace. Her experience in this role involved collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to conceptualize and design innovative solutions that meet users' needs and address business challenges.
Alisha proudly wears the title of a ‘snack connoisseur’ with a particular fondness for potato chips and Sour Patch Kids. Her passions extend to sci-fi/fantasy books, staying up-to-date on evolving technology, indulging in films, and meticulously categorizing her music collection into bops, bangers, and jams.
Photo by Sam Hugh Photography
Culture & community
Talks & workshops
Speaker for Shift the Paradigm: Design as a Strategic Driver for Business Success
(2024 Grace Hopper Conference)
Get Hired: Design & UX
(Hire Women Week / Lady Bird Talent)
Design in Mind with Pineapple Studios
A Day in the Life of a UX Designer (UX Club @ UT Dallas)
Moderator for the State of Black Design (YouTube)
Nashville Design Week: Reshaping the Face of Design
Interstice - Episode 8 podcast: Keep Ya Head Up
IBM Q&A at NSBE Conference
Tap + Swipe + Click: The Not-So-Clear Design Path
Racial equity in design
Board member and IBM representative for the 2024 State of Black Design Conference
Panelist for IBM Designs A New Culture: Racial Equity in Design (SXSW 2022)
Podcast producer for It’s about time
Racial Equity in Design Initiative at IBM
America by Design (Season 1 / Episode 5)
AIGA Austin Community Gathering: Race in Design
Articles & publications
IBM Speculative Fiction Zine: Things Left Unsaid
Taking the leap: Changing Careers into Design and Lessons Learned Along the Way (Medium)