Designing Your Own Future ft. Grace Ling

Grace Ling is a Designer at Electronic Arts and the Founder & Design Lead of the Design Buddies community (16K+ members). Outside of design and community building, she has her own art business and designs merchandise. She also creates content for social media and her blog to help students, designers, and community builders with a total following of 40K+. In the past, she designed and developed virtual reality games to train surgeons and to make education fun. She has also done over 60 speaking engagements on topics relating to design, career growth, networking, and personal branding. You can check out her work at https://grace-ling.com/ In this episode, Grace talks about how she completely changed her career path and landed a job at EA, while still a student, through determination and her own persistence in self-learning new concepts, while landing an internship almost solely through networking. Hear all about how she took her passion in art to create a design community and shape her exciting future.  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/graceling Grace: https://www.instagram.com/irungracepace/ Art: https://www.instagram.com/candyleaf_/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/candyleaf_ Portfolio: https://www.grace-ling.com/ Design Buddies (website): https://designbuddies.community/ Design Buddies (join): https://discord.gg/designbuddies