Romie Kind

Bay Area RN, helping people understand and act on what their bodies are telling them.

Registered nurse, licensed in California in July 2026 after the Samuel Merritt University ABSN. Seeking a first nursing role, drawn to mental and behavioral health and open to the right team in any specialty. Volunteering in clinical mental-health research, on the way to a PMHNP. Before nursing, fifteen years in public science and bioengineering, across museum exhibitions, festivals, and biotech labs.

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Designed cover: three teal medication capsules on a soft paper-to-mint background, labeled Clinical Research.

Describing how medications actually move, or stall, on the way to people in supportive housing, where the clinical literature stops.

Connect to Meds

Active nursing-research collaboration on improving medication access among marginally-housed residents of San Francisco's 6th Street corridor. Manuscript in progress.

Clinical research 2025–present
Two figures silhouetted against the HEAL Geoscope wall at the HEAL Institute pavilion. The wall shows a hexagonal grid of circular ecology displays for Arctic, Forest (Ganges Delta), and Aquatic (Mesoamerican Reef) zones, with a central radial visualization of atmospheric CO₂.

HEAL Institute pavilion

Resident pavilion at Dubai's Museum of the Future, a 2071 institute regenerating damaged ecosystems through bioengineering. Part of the Atelier Brückner-led Journey of the Pioneers complex, spanning planetary health to personal wellbeing, that won a Blooloop Innovation Award in 2024.

Health-experience design 2024
The Body Metrics exhibition floor at The Tech Interactive: a procession of tall faceted columns in cyan, magenta, blue, and teal labeled HEART SYNC, DIGITAL REFLECTION, DATA POOL, and BOUNCE, set against a deep purple carpet under museum lighting.

Turned visitors' heart rate, skin response, breathing, and attention into something they could see, change, and compare. Biofeedback, run as a public exhibition.

Body Metrics

Permanent exhibition on wearable biometrics, biofeedback, and mindfulness. Visitors used real-time physiologic data to explore attention, stress, and emotional state.

Health-experience design 2013–2016
Three young visitors and an adult lean over an interactive tabletop in BioDesign Studio at The Tech Interactive. The screen shows a circular cell-design interface; in the background, an organic-form sculpture printed with a generative pattern is partly visible.

BioDesign Studio

Permanent exhibition on synthetic biology, with a working biological design lab on the museum floor, tangible-tabletop microbe simulators, live cell-culture stations, and visitor-runnable design tools.

Biodesign + synthetic biology 2013–2017
About a dozen bootcamp participants jump with arms raised on a waterfront terrace, the San Francisco Bay Bridge spanning the water behind them under a clear sky.

Studying whether a program changes what people do afterward. The outcome question in any intervention.

Immersion to Action

Cross-disciplinary research program studying how immersive science programming changes audience behavior after they leave the room. Gebert Rüf Scientainment Grant.

Public-engagement research 2023
Four people stand around a glowing orange light-table holding petri dishes inside a festival tent at dusk. One wears nitrile gloves and leans in to examine the illuminated samples.

Artist-Scientist Festival Residency

NSF-funded residency program pairing artists with scientists to produce festival-scale public-engagement work. Residency Director and event producer with Guerilla Science / Pratt Institute.

Public-engagement research 2017–2018