

Belén grew up in Iowa, and spent the first years of her career in San Francisco. After moving back in 2017, she continued working remotely as a senior photo retoucher. Her work has been published in Cosmopolitan magazine, and she has been a guest lecturer for both the undergraduate and graduate design programs at Iowa State University. Her role at BBS combines her passions of design, helping others, and finding creative solutions while keeping everything organized.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge; human resources, team management
YEARS @ BBS: 1
Belén and her husband Matthew (also of BBS) live in Des Moines with a little black cat. She’s recently gotten back into oil painting, and is currently reading “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning” by Margareta Magnusson. She loves traveling, she could probably survive the Hot Ones spicy wing challenge, and is really great at making friends with fish at aquariums.