Hello! I am a designer, researcher, facilitator, and educator working for equity and social justice.
Design as Activism Symposium
I am serving as the co-principal investigator and project lead for Design as Activism, a two-day public symposium on Sept. 13-14, 2024. It will include a day-long activation across the city, followed by a second day of invited speakers, workshops, and an evening panel/event at the Institute of Design at Illinois Tech. Invited speakers will include Chicago-based activists, design practitioners, scholars, commentators, and experts from diverse backgrounds.
Working with design clients: Tools and advice for successful partnerships
“Working with design clients: Tools and advice for successful partnerships” is a practical guide to help design students and educators manage and operate student-run design firms in higher education. To be published in October 2024, I co-wrote this textbook with Meaghan Dee, Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University.
Radically hopeful visions of anti-racist futures
During a final phase of an anti-racism team training at an arts and media college, Hillary Carey and I facilitated a collectively futuring process for the team in which we imagined an anti-racist future of the college. Our article about this project, “Radically hopeful visions: Futuring for institutional anti-racism work” was published in Futures journal in February 2024.
An angry assemblage of algorithmic accountability
This critical visualization examines a case study of bias in a medical algorithm which under-identified black patients for high-risk health prevention program by making the data set “color blind”.
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.
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.
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.