NCCEP / GEAR UP Annual Conference
Illustration | Branding | Content Creation | Speaker
It takes a village...
NCCEP (National Council for Community and Education Partnerships) is a national association dedicated to supporting underserved students as they pursue postsecondary education. Every year there is a conference held for educators, students and mentors. This years theme was loosely based of off the Bushido Code called The Way of the Equity Warrior: The GEAR UP Code. The Code embraces the concepts and beliefs of resiliency, empathy, connection, excellence, and hope – all vitally important to our collective work in helping students make their way through the college-going process to achieve education and lifelong success.
I was tasked with developing and illustrating those codes and the concepts behind them. Each Equity Warrior represented one of these core values.
These designs were printed as posters and given to all of the schools invvolved as well as t-shirts for all of the students on the last day of the conference. The codes were used all over the venue as signage, slides for presentations, screens and social media. I even had the honor to speak directly to an audience of over 1200 people about my experience as a student and how I grew my passion into a career as well as speaking a breakout Q&A seesion with some of the students and the president.
