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Karissa is a 2019 BKI grad working as a User Experience Designer for Kognitiv Corporation. During her time at Waterloo, Karissa completed two Joint majors with Knowledge Integration and Psychology, along with a Fine Arts Studio Minor and the Collaborative Design Specialization. She went on to complete a Master of Digital Experience Innovation (MDEI) at Waterloo.

In her current role, Karissa utilizes her design thinking and collaborative skills from KI to help her clients build deeper customer relationships using Kognitiv’s AI-powered technology.

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Jesse is a 2014 BKI grad who is working as a pilot at Porter Airlines. Jesse also has a side company, SharpeAero, that’s redefining Canadian flight training resources.

Jesse shares his gratitude about his KI design-thinking skill: "Canada’s training resources really needed some design thinking incorporated into them - thank you KI!​"

Raya is a 2016 BKI grad working as a Senior Design Researcher at RBC, and also as a nutritionist. Raya thanks Knowledge Integration for helping her get into the design research field, by teaching her how to communicate across disciplines and think critically.

Raya shares, "I can't tell you how many doors it has opened with employers looking for the skills you will learn. It also taught me that finding purpose in your passions is important, which ultimately pushed me to also becoming a nutritionist and starting my own business."

Alexandra is a 2014 BKI grad working as a Senior UX Researcher at Adobe, in New York. In this role, Alexandra works on post-production collaborative editing software for video and photography files. This means Alexandra evaluates features that support collaborative sharing and editing.