Hello! I am a designer, researcher, facilitator, and educator working for equity and social justice.
Designing Equitable Futures
Systemic racism has always been embedded in the structures and institutions of the United States, yet it often operates invisibly and unchallenged. At this moment, the infrastructures of inequality and inequity have been laid bare. To create equitable outcomes, we must recognize race and acknowledge those inequalities, and design with them in mind.
Innovation & Impact: Cultivating Food Equity
Using entrepreneurial thinking to generate ideas that imagine a more equitable future food system, students learn to recognize and cultivate opportunities for a range of innovative projects such as business ventures, social and civic services, and creative projects in media, arts, and design. Designed as a transformative DEI educational experience, the class offers structures for students to assess, leverage and add to their own skills sets through transdisciplinary collaboration and proactive self-evaluation practices.
Equity Commons
What is the Chicago network of individuals and organizations that are working towards equity by seeking to improve the lives of people who are subject to systemic oppression due to their identity? A key idea in this model is the creation of a communication platform in which community members, organizations, government, researchers, and business interests share and build knowledge in an open exchange of ideas.