Leanne Libert

Senior Information Architect, Digital, Simplification, based in New York

As an information architect in the Interactive Group at Siegel+Gale New York, Leanne designs digital and print solutions that communicate the most complex ideas in a clear and simple way. Her role at Siegel+Gale utilizes a range of skills and subject matter including ethnographic research, information and interaction design, information sciences, cognitive psychology, content development and linguistics.

Her past experience includes print and digital media in equal measure for organizations both large and small. Leanne wrote and edited stories for daily and weekly newspapers in Western Pennsylvania before moving to Washington DC where she managed a newspaper and online communications for the National Organization for Women. She has also developed branding, designed web sites and information architecture for small businesses like a boutique healthcare firm specializing in healthcare IT. And she can scale those skills to meet the needs of a global corporation like Chemonics International, an international development firm that contracts with USAID and manages projects on five continents. During graduate school, she designed interactive proofs of concept for Microsoft, Motorola and UPMC Health System.

Beyond her work in print and digital media, Leanne has studied medicine and worked in healthcare settings, managed accounts payable for a coal-mining company and taught English and composition to undergraduates and former prisoners.

Leanne holds a master’s degree in communications planning and information design from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor’s degree in English and journalism from Gannon University. She lives in Manhattan, but still roots for her hometown team, the Pittsburgh Steelers.