Welcome to Level Up, a monthly event created to help creatives enhance their portfolios.Working Not Working partnered with Useful School to give you the UX/UI state of the union, and a rundown of what you can do to make your portfolio stand out.Our guest speaker, Ritesh Gupta (he/they), founder of Useful School, has collaborated or worked for companies including Wieden+Kennedy, Mother Design, Sagmeister & Walsh, R/GA, Cooper Hewitt, and even 2 Shark Tank companies. Ritesh's work has been featured in Adweek, AIGA Eye on Design, It's Nice That, Wallpaper, Print Mag, Brand New, The Dieline. Ritesh is also currently a volunteer for Where Are The Black Designers?Useful School is a pay-what-you-can, online design school for people of color with outcome-driven curriculum that "covers the stuff they teach you in design school, but [also] focuses on the stuff they don't." Useful School is not only a classroom but a community. usefulschool.com