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.

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

Designing to be Seen (Medium)

Articles & publications

IBM Speculative Fiction Zine: Things Left Unsaid

Taking the leap: Changing Careers into Design and Lessons Learned Along the Way (Medium)