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This We Believe...

At Illustrating Progress, we bring creative thinking, visual storytelling, and values-driven collaboration to complex challenges. Illustrating Progress believes:

  • Fostering creativity is crucial to addressing today's challenges. 
  • The most effective teams accommodate different experiences, perspectives, thinking processes, and creative styles. 
  • More creative tools and processes can support everyone's learning, not just visual learners.
  • It is more important than ever to stay connected and understand what each of us sees and experiences.

Creative Code of Practice

1.  We Put Our Values into Action

  • We approach projects with humility, respect, and a creative mindset.
  • We honor diverse perspectives and foster inclusion in our work.


2. Commitment to Quality

  • We deliver work that meets or exceeds the project’s agreed scope and standards.
  • We take time to understand the client’s goals and project context.
  • We approach with thoughtful design, clean execution, and professional presentation.


3. Clear Communication

  • We communicate promptly and clearly with clients and collaborators.
  • We respond to communications within a reasonable timeframe.
  • We proactively notify clients or collaborators of any potential delays, concerns, or requirements for clarification.


4. Creative Independence and Professionalism

  • We manage our deadlines, methods, and workflow.
  • We ask for clarity before starting work if expectations are unclear.
  • Represent ourselves and the Illustrating Progress brand with professionalism.
  • If and when we leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI), we do so with extreme care:
    • We recognize that AI does not inherently align with our values and can amplify existing biases. We stay vigilant, reviewing content with an equity lens and correcting for bias when we see it.
    • We do not ask AI to make decisions. 
    • We never treat AI's work as a final draft. 


5. Growth Mindset 

  • Welcome constructive feedback as a tool for professional growth.
  • We engage openly in creative problem-solving when challenges arise.
  • We maintain a learning stance and a focus on continuous improvement.

Chrissie Bonner, Founder & Principal

Chrissie is a graphic facilitator, author, and illustrator.  


Her interest in visual work is rooted in cultivating the mindsets necessary for transformative change and designing environments for people to be creative and do their best thinking. She is passionate about hosting spaces for reimagining, leveraging deep listening and collective creativity.  


Her professional career began in institutional philanthropy at The Philadelphia Foundation, where she supported over 200 nonprofits in the Greater Philadelphia area for nearly a decade. Through countless conversations with nonprofit leaders and teams, Chrissie developed a deep curiosity about the intersections of organizational culture, creativity, and adaptability.


Since 2014, Chrissie has led Illustrating Progress, a creative consultancy that has grown from a solo practice to one with creative affiliates from all over the country and the world. The affiliate network comprises talented artists and professionals who bring diverse perspectives and skills to every project.


You can read more about her background and work here. 

Illustrating Progress is a creative practice that utilizes powerful visual thinking and facilitation tools. Through live illustration, visual storytelling, and collaborative mapping, we help organizations see their stories and support extraordinary learning and planning environments. Our creative affiliate model allows us to bring the right creative talents to each project while maintaining a shared commitment to quality, a shared creative code of practice and values, and the transformative power of visual thinking.

Ro Adler - Facilitation & Graphic Recording (they/them)

Ro Adler - Facilitation & Graphic Recording (they/them)

Ro Adler - Facilitation & Graphic Recording (they/them)

Ro Adler is an artist, educator, facilitator, and graphic recorder. They believe in the power of collaboration, and they love to create visuals that support both clarity and emotion for people doing important work.

They come to Illustrating Progress from Philly’s vibrant community arts world, where they have served as a teaching artist, pr

Ro Adler is an artist, educator, facilitator, and graphic recorder. They believe in the power of collaboration, and they love to create visuals that support both clarity and emotion for people doing important work.

They come to Illustrating Progress from Philly’s vibrant community arts world, where they have served as a teaching artist, program administrator, and consultant. In addition to working as a graphic recorder, Ro is pursuing an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art. 

Their favorite mediums are oil paint, digital illustration, and paper mâché.

Elizabeth Beier - Illustration (she/her)

Ro Adler - Facilitation & Graphic Recording (they/them)

Ro Adler - Facilitation & Graphic Recording (they/them)

Elizabeth Beier is a creative powerhouse with ten years of experience, centered around illustration, comics and graphic facilitation. Since founding Art + Story LLC in 2020, she has provided illustration, graphic facilitation and design services to nonprofits, healthcare organizations both large and small, and other companies. Her graphic

Elizabeth Beier is a creative powerhouse with ten years of experience, centered around illustration, comics and graphic facilitation. Since founding Art + Story LLC in 2020, she has provided illustration, graphic facilitation and design services to nonprofits, healthcare organizations both large and small, and other companies. Her graphic novel “The Big Book of Bisexual Trials and Errors” (2017, Northwest Press) was called one of the best LGBT graphic novels of the year by The Advocate. Several of her illustrated stories centering women’s issues have been featured on the Washington Post homepage. She is also an adjunct professor of comics at California College of the Arts. What sets Elizabeth apart is her strong visual skills, coupled with a strong and studied sense of how to tell a great story.

Madeleine Conover - Illustration (she/her)

Ro Adler - Facilitation & Graphic Recording (they/them)

Neha Govil - Graphic Facilitation & Visual Coaching (she/her)

Maddy Conover is an artist living in Philadelphia, PA. As an elementary schooler, she began learning how to “mind map,” both digitally and by hand. Ever since then, mind mapping has been essential to her creative practice.
She received her MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art & Architecture at Temple University and her BA in S

Maddy Conover is an artist living in Philadelphia, PA. As an elementary schooler, she began learning how to “mind map,” both digitally and by hand. Ever since then, mind mapping has been essential to her creative practice.
She received her MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art & Architecture at Temple University and her BA in Studio Art and Sustainable Food & Farming from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. In her free time, she enjoys screenprinting, painting, cooking, and hanging out with her dog, Miwa.https://madeleineconover.com/ Contact: conovermadeleine@gmail.com 

Neha Govil - Graphic Facilitation & Visual Coaching (she/her)

Ro Adler - Facilitation & Graphic Recording (they/them)

Neha Govil - Graphic Facilitation & Visual Coaching (she/her)

Neha is a visual facilitator, collaborator, and also the founder of ThinkALOUD where her endeavor is to hold space for creative exploration and strategic decision-making for impact-driven leaders and teams.  Throughout her career Neha has been fascinated with leveraging creative tools such as storyboards, sketchnotes, and graphic recordin

Neha is a visual facilitator, collaborator, and also the founder of ThinkALOUD where her endeavor is to hold space for creative exploration and strategic decision-making for impact-driven leaders and teams.  Throughout her career Neha has been fascinated with leveraging creative tools such as storyboards, sketchnotes, and graphic recording to help visualize and build the larger picture.   Neha draws on her experience of consulting businesses and nonprofits across the globe with two of the world’s largest management advisory firms. She is an ICF (ACC) certified leadership coach and a Master Practitioner of the Energy Leadership Index (ELITM).   She was born, raised, and educated in India, now lives in Atlanta, Georgia and together with her husband finds everyday joy in raising their little ones.  You can learn more about Neha at www.thinkaloudcoaching.com . 

Haley McDevitt - Lead Graphic Facilitator & Illustrator (she/her)

Haley McDevitt - Lead Graphic Facilitator & Illustrator (she/her)

Haley McDevitt - Lead Graphic Facilitator & Illustrator (she/her)

Haley is an artist and visual practitioner originally from the North Shore of Massachusetts. Her artistic practice began at a young age and continued as a lifelong journey focusing on sense-making based on experiences and the meanings they hold through painting, drawing, writing, and printmaking. Haley was introduced to the world of graph

Haley is an artist and visual practitioner originally from the North Shore of Massachusetts. Her artistic practice began at a young age and continued as a lifelong journey focusing on sense-making based on experiences and the meanings they hold through painting, drawing, writing, and printmaking. Haley was introduced to the world of graphic facilitation while working as an Events Coordinator at Easthampton City Arts in Easthampton, MA in 2019.  Haley believes organizing thoughts and their relationships to one another to create shared understanding and amplify the message in a structured visual outcome is important, exciting, and necessary work relevant to projects of all shapes and sizes.   She also runs her own visual facilitation practice based in Philadelphia.  You can see more of her work at https://haleymcdevitt.com/ Contact: haley@illustratingprogress.com

Madeleine Jubilee Saito - Illustration & Graphic Design (she/her)

Haley McDevitt - Lead Graphic Facilitator & Illustrator (she/her)

Haley McDevitt - Lead Graphic Facilitator & Illustrator (she/her)

Madeleine Jubilee Saito is an award-winning professional cartoonist and graphic designer living on Duwamish land in Seattle, Washington.

Madeleine grew up in the woods of rural Illinois, then in a mid-sized post-industrial city in Illinois, and now lives in Seattle. She is a white Lithuanian American cis woman, a Christian, and an anti-cap

Madeleine Jubilee Saito is an award-winning professional cartoonist and graphic designer living on Duwamish land in Seattle, Washington.

Madeleine grew up in the woods of rural Illinois, then in a mid-sized post-industrial city in Illinois, and now lives in Seattle. She is a white Lithuanian American cis woman, a Christian, and an anti-capitalist.

Some words you might use to describe her work are comics poetry, poetry comics, or experimental comics. She is interested in many things, including friendship, formal experimentation, medieval sacred comics, the built environment, solidarity, climate justice, the psalms, the material world, and the sacred.  You can learn even more about Madeleine and her work at https://madeleinejubileesaito.net/. 

Rommy Torrico - Graphic Design & Illustration (they/them)

Haley McDevitt - Lead Graphic Facilitator & Illustrator (she/her)

Rommy Torrico - Graphic Design & Illustration (they/them)

Rommy Torrico is a formerly undocumented, queer, trans nonbinary visual artist born in Iquique, Chile, and raised in Florida. They have been involved in social movement spaces encompassing (im)migrant, queer, and trans rights struggles for over a decade and infuse much of their work with personal experience and the stories their communiti

Rommy Torrico is a formerly undocumented, queer, trans nonbinary visual artist born in Iquique, Chile, and raised in Florida. They have been involved in social movement spaces encompassing (im)migrant, queer, and trans rights struggles for over a decade and infuse much of their work with personal experience and the stories their communities share. Over the years, Torrico’s work has been included in several publications and exhibited at the Getty Museum, the Smithsonian Museum, the Library of Congress, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía as well as many galleries and museums throughout the Americas and internationally.


You can learn more about them and their creative portfolio at https://www.rommytorrico.com/

Rick Torres - Virtual and Hybrid Event Specialist (he/him)

Haley McDevitt - Lead Graphic Facilitator & Illustrator (she/her)

Rommy Torrico - Graphic Design & Illustration (they/them)

Rick is a content production professional with experience across diverse roles bridging the creative and technical realms. What began as a passion for music in his native Costa Rica led him to relocate to the US to pursue a degree in Music and Audio Production from Shenandoah University in Virginia.


This would eventually develop into a car

Rick is a content production professional with experience across diverse roles bridging the creative and technical realms. What began as a passion for music in his native Costa Rica led him to relocate to the US to pursue a degree in Music and Audio Production from Shenandoah University in Virginia.


This would eventually develop into a career including extensive project management work for content localization projects in over 20 languages for companies such as American Airlines and Apple, as well as composer, producer, and recording engineer credits on hundreds of recordings.


After 20 years working in NYC and Los Angeles, he is now back in Costa Rica with his wife, where they enjoy their free time exploring the country with their dog Pax.

Germantown Studios - Our Animation Partner

Germantown Studios, based in historic northwest Philadelphia, is a full-service animation studio. They have over 15 years of experience creating animation for clients such as Google, Target, Hermès, and Hasbro. They can help you take your product, your concept, or your service and bring it to lifeFrom script to storyboard to delivery, from explainer videos to medical visualizations to interactive applications, they've got you covered.


Germantown Studios is our preferred animation partner!

http://germantownstudios.com/

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