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video production

Whiteboard-Style Video

This video for the Health Finance Institute (HFI) explains the NCD (Non Communicable Disease) financing gap. I created the animations by free drawing on my iPad and compiled the video using Adobe tools. The script is not mine.​​

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This was originally posted on HFI's page. All rights belong to them.

Introducing ASPIRE Video Series

Alongside a coworker, I explained the DC Public Charter School Board's new academic accountability system, ASPIRE, in this multi-video series. I was the creative director for this project (both formatting the video and making graphics) and used existing footage of Board meetings to streamline our process. 

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I used Canva and Adobe Premiere Pro for this project. All rights belong to the DC Public Charter School Board (DC PCSB).

Mini Documentary

I also have created numerous mini documentary-style, advertisement, and feature videos for my classes. Watch my documentary about interning on Capitol Hill, created for my university capstone.

 

All footage and audio is for nonprofit classroom use. This video uses a short clip from Scripps News' In the Loop, and its use is intended for only for my undergraduate work. 

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A Human Right. Period.

I created this TikTok during my internship with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), to advocate for refugees' access to menstrual products, using available footage (that is not my own) in South Sudan. I wrote this project script with my supervisors' approval and compiled/edited visuals myself. Tools used were my iPhone, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Photoshop. 

 

Some comments:

[Tiktok user 1]: PERIOD 😍💅🏻

[Tiktok user 2]: 🥰🥰🥰​​

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This was originally posted on the UNHCR's TikTok page (@refugees). All rights belong to them.

DC Public Charter Schools NOW Monthly Highlights

This video series, designed primarily for YouTube and Instagram and executed in collaboration with a colleague at DC PCSB, re-caps the most important parts of the DC Public Charter Schools' monthly parent and educator-facing newsletter, DC Public Charter Schools NOW.

 

I kicked off this now-regular series (which has been continued after my departure from the agency) after identifying that audiences needed a better incentive to read the newsletter, and/or an easier way to stay informed about DC public charter students' accomplishments. 

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All rights belong to DC PCSB.

Dark to light green gradient background. Title says HIGHLIGHTS from our OCTOBER newsletter... Underneath title, photo of Black young boy with short natural hair, wearing a green polo. He has a big smile and is holding both thumbs up (giving two thumbs signs).
A screenshot of an Instagram caption that reads: [bolded] dcpcsb| Happy October! Did you catch the recent edition of our monthly newsletter, DC Public Charter Schools NOW? If not, subscribe at the link in our bio... and watch these spook-tacular highlights! [Ghost emoji]

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Podcast: Step Therapy

DEVELOPED BY DUMASTAR

In this podcast, I investigated fail-first insurance policies and the dangerous effects they can have on patients' lives, and detailed what can be done to encourage change. My hope was that the project could encourage patients' own health literacy when communicating with their insurance provider.

 

I directed this podcast from start to finish, including background research, its interview, and script creation. It came about after listening to real patients' stories during my internship with the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, and was for my undergraduate capstone.

 

I hand-illustrated the cover image and created this podcast via Adobe Audition.

 

This podcast includes a brief excerpt from Dr. Ann Bass’ testimony to the Texas State Senate. The clip is used solely for educational purposes as part of my undergraduate capstone project.​​

 

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Podcast cover description: The cover page is features a black background with a white silhouette of a staircase, and simplistic illustrations of multicolored pills cascading down it. The bottom and right edges of the image are teal colored and say "Beyond the Surface" and "An Izzy Podcast [hollow white heart]." ​

Newscast: DC Universities Come Together in Historic Climate Talks

For an undergraduate capstone assignment, I directed, filmed, anchored, and produced my own newscast on a sustainable event within the Washington, DC area. This was designed to practice my news broadcasting skills and showcase what I learned. I had a lot of fun interviewing professors about the sustainability efforts local DC universities made as of 2022.

 

Footage that is not mine is marked with its respective source/watermark.

All footage is strictly for nonprofit classroom use. 

writing samples

Newsletter — DC Public Charter Schools NOW

April Edition

This newsletter highlighted students' accomplishments, re-capped important agency announcements, and reminded its parent, educator and policy audiences about key deadlines within the school year.

Most content that I wrote about was extracted from individual schools' social pages and digital newsrooms.

Blog Post — Reflections and Advice for the Future:

Liv Birnstad

I wrote this news-style profile of an accomplished high school senior, Liv Birnstad, to celebrate her successes and the kind of leadership fostered by her school, a DC public charter school.

 

This story was for the DC Public Charter School Board's blog page. All rights belong to DC PCSB.

graphic design

I have designed several graphics for internships and organizations. I use Canva, Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator for conventional graphics, and hand-drawn logos using Adobe Fresco and my Apple Pencil.

A hand-drawn, colorful graphic. From left to right: a pencil replaces the Washington Monument obelisk, and next to it is grey text reading DC Public Charter School Board atop a white box. Underneat, there is a Black girl wearing a pink shirt, blue backpack, blue graduation cap, grey jeans, and brown boots. She is walking up a black road. The road has dark green rectangles outlined in white that stretch across it horizontally, as in the stripes of a highway, that read SCHOOL REFORM ACT; EXCELLENT SCHOOLS; ENDURING PARTNERSHIPS; EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION. The road is set atop green grass. From the center of the image to the right, there is a dark blue semi circle. Inside, there is the text in orange #DCCharterProud, with various illustrated students writing, smiling, or staring. They are diverse races and ages. Above them is the text in white, Quality, Choice, Equity.

I illustrated this social media header for the DC Public Charter School Board, following their official brand guidelines.

A bright blue background that is textured to appear like lined paper. At the top: Education (in yellow) protects refugee (in white) girls (in yellow) from: In the middle of the graphic is a sillhouette of a young girl in a tutu and an older girl, with a silhouette of a book above them, acting as a shelter. Underneat the girls' feet are the words, written in dark blue atop a yellow box and animated to appear they are scrolling: uncertain futures, child marriage, FGM, child labour, violence, social norms, stereotypes. In the lower right is the UNHCR logo.
A bright blue background textured to look like paper. Text atop in white reads "Empower young refugees". There is a simple cartoon-style (no facial features) drawing of a child wearing a dark blue cape and holding their fist up as in power or victory. The child's hair, skin color, and clothes changes to reflect diversity, including a girl with a hijab, a boy with a kufi, a dark-skinned boy with natural hair. In the bottom right is the UNHCR logo
Bright blue background. In white, oriented right: refugees have the right to clean, safe water. A drawing of a girl facing backwards, kneeling as she fills a grey jerry jug with water from a tap. She wears a black hijab, a bright pink dress, dark pink pants, and light pink shoes. The water is animated to appear as though it flows blue and clear, to dark brown and muddy. The bottom half of the image is the floor the girl stands on, a brick pattern in black and dark blue. To the bottom right is the UNHCR logo.

These are gifs and graphics I made for UNHCR during my internship with them. They were originally posted on their social media (@refugees) and all rights belong to them.

Bright blue background. To the left, the text: Less than half of young refugees are enrolled in secondary school." The word "half" is in yellow while the other words are white. It is circled in a crayon-drawn box. To the top right of the image, is a blank white paper cutout of a chain of people, with one person cut vertically in half. The chain is outlined in yellow crayon. To the bottom left of the graphic is a blank, white paper cutout of a house, outlined in yellow crayon and overlaid with a drawing of windows and a clock, as like a school house. Toward the bottom right of the image are the words in yellow EDUCATION IS A RIGHT. There is the UNHCR logo at the very bottom right.
A yellow to bright blue gradient background, which is layered semi-translucent atop brick. In the foreground is a picture of a smiling older, white or Latin American man wearing glasses and a white shirt. To the center right of the image is text in white: "They were imprisoned. Not because of a crime, theft or being bad, but because of their way of thinking, their way of beleiving." Then text in bolded yellow: "I feel their pain." After the quote, the text Rev. Feliberto Pereira written in dark blue atop a white box. Underneath, the text Southwest Good Samaritan Ministries [italicized] Los Fresnos, Texas. At the top right of the graphic is the UNHCR logo.

I designed this quote card for UNHCR USA's social media, for World Humanitarian Day. All rights belong to UNHCR USA.

Dark greenish-blue background. Cartoon illustration of stacks of golden-yellow coins as though a bar graph is trending down and to the right. A bright blue zig-zagged arrow is layered atop and trends upward to the right in opposition. At each point of the zigzag, three, there is a speech bubble. Speech bubble 1: Text Healthy lifestyle, cartoon of apple and broccoli. Bubble 2: Text Health-based discounts, cartoon of green dollar sign. Bubble 3: Monitoring Technology, cartoon of smart watch. Text in all caps from left to right, first orange then blue: LOWER COSTS AND BETTER HEALTH?

I designed this for a blog at the Health Finance Institute during my internship with them. The blog, which I did not write, is about wellness-linked insurance incentives and their impact on reducing the risk of non-communicable diseases and lowering their associated costs. 

web design

Alongside designing this website, I have created websites for student organizations, friends, and family. I have also edited websites for internships. I am experienced with Wix, Weebly and Wordpress. See some examples below.

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I built this website from scratch, and most of the writing on it is my own.

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This site was already made when I was asked to work on it. From 2019-2020, I re-arranged some tabs and pages, re-designed its header (see above), and updated various points of information.

miscellaneous

A simply illustrated branch of a cherry blossom tree lays diagonally to the right, crossing over a lily of the valley vine with light green and light blue bells, which crosses diagnonally to the left. They are adjoined with a black horizontal line, as to form an A. In hand-drawn letters vertically on the right, ALPHA DELTA PHI SOCIETY.
A turquoise circle. Atop on the left, three leaves and a lily of the valley plant, with white, light green, and light pink bells. Drawn simply. To the right, hand-drawn bubble letters [Alpha sign/A], [Delta sign/triangle], [Phi sign/ Circle with vertical cross] Society.
A light yellow moon and star. Atop it a simple sillhouette in dark yellow of the top of the US Capitol Building, with a lily of the valley branch crossing over it diagnolaly from right to left. Curving in black text, Capital [Alpha sign] [Delta sign] [Phi sign] S.
A gradient circle for background, light to dark blue. Top of US Capitol Building drawn in detail with black outline. At the bottom where the rest of the building would be, two speech bubbles in dark blue and dark yellow. Serif text reads Speakers of the House, GW'S SPOKEN WORD COLLECTIVE

Graphics designed for the Alpha Delta Phi Society, 2020

Logo for the GW Spoken Word Collective, 2019

A pop art-style drawing of a smling couple. Black and white atop a bright solid blue background.

Portraits that I make for fun. You can see more examples on my Instagram, @iahardyart.

A semi-realistic full color drawing featuring detailed facial features of a blonde-haired white girl. She is wearing a v-neck white blouse and sitting with her arms crossed atop a black table and a red book. Next to her is a tea mug, dish, and spoon. The background is solid lilac.

©2025 by isabelhardy.

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