Hello! I am a designer, researcher, facilitator, and educator working for equity and social justice.
Anti-racism community of practice at ID
In 2020, following the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor as well as the increase in anti-Asian discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic, I helped start an Anti-racist Community of Practice at IIT Institute of Design, through which we are examining our curriculum, policies and practices across the school.
These are Love(d) Letters
I created the graphic design and imagery for this book that investigates the rhetorical form of the love letter through visual and textual exploration. The cover and book design was named a winner at Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show 2020.
Politics of Design
This course examines the interrelationship of the politics of design across individuals, practices, organizations, institutions, and systems. By politics, we mean political beliefs, actions, practices, and policies as well as the arrangements of power and authority between actors (human and non-human) in society, not whether you identify as Republican or Democrat. How do design and designers intersect with social and cultural sources of power and authority?
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.
Managing the Creative Process Within Graphic Design Firms: A Literature Review
This literature review examines an array of research that interrogates how the creative process in graphic design firms can be most successfully managed.
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.
Paper Violets, Vellum Prose
In 2017, I worked with my colleague and frequent collaborator, Ames Hawkins, on her project, “Paper Violets, Vellum Prose.” My contributions to this multi-component art piece consisted of design refinement and execution of a wallpaper design, design for a window installation, and design guidance for a needlepoint quilt. The installation piece was exhibited at the “Ill-At-Ease” exhibition at SUNY-Buffalo, Spring 2017.