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BIPOC Design History
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Antionette Carroll
May Abdalla and Amy Rose
Ted Alcorn
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Sara Aye
Mark Barden
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Atif Bostik
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Sarah Brooks
Rachel Brown
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Schuyler Brown
Bill Browning
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Amy Chasan
Neill Coleman
Lisa David
Katy Davis
Susan Davis
Tim DeChristopher
Jane Diplock
Gabriele Donati and Ted Wallach
Jed Emerson
Matt Enstice
Matt Enstice
Tirtza Even
Robert Fabricant
Abby Falik
David Fenton
Leetha Filderman
Kenny Fries
Christine Gaspar
Ruth Gates, Ph.D.
Alex Gladstein
Jennifer Gootman
Jennifer Gootman
Nancye Green
Elísabet Gunnarsdótti, Gudrún Hallgrims-dóttir
Rosanne Haggerty
Amy Hall
Amy Hall
Doug Hebert
Nicholas Higgins
Jeffrey Hollender
Jennifer Holt
Gabrielle Horowitz-Prisco
Richard Hsu
Inside Out Project
Emily Jacobi
Jonathan Jacobs
Nick Jehlen
Tracy Johnson
Laura Kadumus, Meghan Lazier, and Gina Kim
Yolanda Kakabadse
Ben Keesey
Kerri Kelly
Ariel Kennan and Team
Cheryl Kiser
Amanda Kizer
Matt Klein
Ben Knight
Nathaniel Koloc
Jesse Kornbluth
Anjali Kumar
Jessica Ladd
Amy Larkin
Steve Larosiliere
Dr. Roberta Lee
Dr. Laurie Leitch and Dr. Loree Sutton
David Levine
Lance Lindblom
Lance Lindblom
Rachel Lloyd
Robin Low
Nancy Lublin
Giorgia Lupi
Lynne Maguire
Nancy Mahon
Sunitha Malieckal
Gabriel Manga
Chelsea Mauldin
Erin Mazursky
Kevin McSpadden
Paul D. Miller
Hirokazu Nagata & Bumpei Yorifuji
Alexis Ohanian
Bill Ottman
Ben Peterson
Jonas Piet
Daniel Pinchbeck
Paul Polak
Paul Polak
Dr. Paul Polak
Jake Porway
Doug Powell
Dave Rapaport
Nathaniel Raymond
Jonathan Rich
Michelle Risinger
Laurie Ristino
David Rock
Tayo Rockson
Anne Rudig
Jason Rzepka
Jonah Sachs
Margaret Klein Salamon
Susan Reilly Salgado
Victoria Sammartino
Brad Schenck
Roddy Schrock
Mark Seltman
Shaolee Sen
Debika Shome
Albert Shum
Santiago Siri
Ryan Smith
William Spear
Lina Srivastava
Dave Stangis
Andy Stefanovich
Matt Stinchcomb
Brett Stoudt
Kiko Suarez
Elizabeth Talerman & Miguèle Issa
Henry Timms
Emily Tow Jackson
Lizz Winstead
Naomi Weinstein
Joey Womack
Danielle Wood, PhD
Casey Box and Jiten Yumnam
Michael Murphy
Tracy Johnson
Jonathan McKay
Maggie Breslin
Lori Melichar
Jake Porway
Evan Thomas and Zoé Bezpalko
Anne LaFond
Marc Brackett
Rosanne Haggerty
Sundaa Bridgett-Jones
Heather Fleming
Doug Powell
Kara Meyer
Managing Director - (+) POOL
Mohit Raj
Co-Founder at Turn Your Concern Into Action Foundation
Karen Proctor
Designer-In-Residence Spring 2022
Michelle Fehler
Visual Communication Design Biomimicry Faculty Associate, School of Life Sciences Affiliate Faculty, The Biomimicry Center - Arizona State University
Sabine Salandy & Jasmine Cardona
Tech Talent Pipeline Program Manager & Executive Director of Economic Development, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York
Willy Wong
Chief Creative Officer at NYC & Company
Brittney McFarlane
Product Designer at Care.com
Jennifer White-Johnson
Art & Design Activist and Educator
Mihir Kshirsagar
Clinic Lead - Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
Rachael Dietkus
Founder - Social Workers Who Design
Bernard Hayman
Global Head of Impact, Measurement & Learning - Purpose PBC
Markus Kessler, Umila Singh, Daniel Herrera, Kate Newman and Taiwo Adeoye
Division of Prevention Services, NYC Administration for Children's Services
Deborah Marton
Executive Director - Van Alen Institute
Bon Ku & Robert Pugliese
Assistant Dean of Medical Education & Director of Innovation Design - Thomas Jefferson University
BIPOC Design History
Curriculum Designers & Instructional Designers - BIPOC Design History
Daniel Edelman
Associate Director of Strategy and Operations - The Next 100
Lesley-Ann Noel
Associate Director for Design Thinking for Social Impact and Professor of Practice - Tulane University
Erica Boonstra
Principal Advisor, Global Design - International Justice Mission
Sadie Red Wing
Design Educator & Advocate for Tribal Visual Sovereignty
Alexander Frantzen
Founder & CEO of Carbon Calories
Sarah Fathallah
Freelance Social Designer and Researcher
André Blackman
Founder & CEO - Onboard Health
Ishan Khosla
Founding Partner - The Typecraft Initiative
Raja Schaar
Program Director & Assistant Professor - Drexel University
Shugo Hama
Co-Founder - Thien Sinh Farm
Rasmia Kirmani Frye
Founder - Fund for Public Housing
Nicole Cardoza
Founder - Anti-Racism Daily, Yoga Foster, Reclamation Ventures
Daisy Rosales
Co-Founder and Executive - Brio
Liz Jackson and Alex Haagaard
The Disabled List
K.O. Campbell & Andi Broffman
Large City Strategy Lead & Portfolio Lead - Built for Zero
Alex Anderson
Founder - Good Measure
Denise Shanté Brown
Founding Director + Holistic Design Strategist - Black Womxn Flourish
Shayla Byrd & Hannah Nicdao
UX Writer & Interaction Designer - Google
Christian Delsol
Former Public Information Media Executive Producer - United Nations Population Fund
Rodrigo Muñoz
Founder - Andes Materials
Katie Puccio & Liz Wells
Desk Lunch
Chelsea Toler-Hoffmann
President, Keep Families Giving
Angela Patton
CEO - Girls for A Change
Hosan Lee
Founder & CEO - TableTribes
Emilie Miyauchi
Board Member and Peer Educator - CEANYC
Anna Nazo
Performance Artist
Katherine Zhou
Designer - IBM
Natalie Sims
Design Director - Public Policy Lab
Jacob Rader
Interaction Designer / Researcher - Proximity Designs
Adam Kahane
Director - Reos Partners
Sloan Leo
Community Builder
Patrician McCarthy
Founder - The Mien Shiang Institute
Ivy Woolf Turk
Founder - Project Liberation
Christie Nicholson
Entrepreneur-in-Residence - GIANT Innovation
Jeremy Faludi
Sustainable Design Strategist / Principal - Faludi Designs
Aviva Oskow
Human Centered / Visual Designer - 18F
Scott Lehman
Principal / CEO - Human Spark
Hannah Calhoun, Bill Cromie, and KT Gillett
Blue Ridge Labs, Robin Hood
Antionette Carroll
Founder and President / CEO - Creative Reaction Lab
May Abdalla and Amy Rose
Co-founders, Anagram
Ted Alcorn
Director of Innovation, Everytown for Gun Safety
Alumni Night
Pragya, Josh, Rhea, Sebastian, and Akshata
Rochelle Ardesher
Co-founder/director, Point B Design + Training
Sara Aye
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Greater Good Studio
Mark Barden
Co-author, A Beautiful Constraint
Kate Black
Founder, Magnifeco
Natasha Blank
DJ; Founder, The Get Down
Micaela Blei
Senior Manager, The Moth Education Program
Erika Block
Founder, Local Orbit
Dara Blumenthal and Nathan Snyder
Nature of Work
Carroll Bogert & Alex Tatusian
President & Editorial Designer, The Marshall Project
Pamela Bolton
VP of Innovation and Strategy, Concern Worldwide U.S.
Atif Bostik
Executive Director, Uplift Solutions
Wendy Brawer
Founder, Green Map System
Sarah Brooks
Director of Insight and Design, US Veterans Affairs
Rachel Brown
Director, Sisi ni Amani International
Rachel Brown
Center for Prevention of Genocide Fellow; US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Schuyler Brown
Strategy Director, Sightful
Bill Browning
Founding Partner, Terrapin Bright Green
Bill Browning
Founding Partner, Terrapin Bright Green
Bill Browning
Founder, Terrapin
Amy Chasan
Founder and Owner, Sweet Generation
Neill Coleman
Principal, Mission Magnified Consulting
Lisa David
President and CEO, Public Health Solutions
Katy Davis
Managing Director, ideas42
Susan Davis
Founder, BRAC
Tim DeChristopher
Bidder 70
Jane Diplock
Former President, SEC of New Zealand
Gabriele Donati and Ted Wallach
TimeRepublik
Jed Emerson
Founder, Blended Value
Matt Enstice
President and CEO, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus
Matt Enstice
President and CEO, Buffalo Niagara Medical Group
Tirtza Even
Director, Natural Life film
Robert Fabricant
Co-Founder & Partner, Dalberg Design
Abby Falik
Founder, Global Citizen Year
David Fenton
Founder and CEO, Fenton Communications
Leetha Filderman
President and COO, PopTech
Kenny Fries
American Memoirist and Poet
Christine Gaspar
Executive Director, Center for Urban Pedagogy
Ruth Gates, Ph.D.
Director, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
Alex Gladstein
Director of Institutional Affairs, Human Rights Foundation
Jennifer Gootman
Director of Social Consciousness & Innovation, West Elm
Jennifer Gootman
Vice President, Social Consciousness & Innovation West Elm
Nancye Green
Chief Design Officer, The Medicines Company
Elísabet Gunnarsdótti, Gudrún Hallgrims-dóttir
Women's Rights Activists, The Long Friday
Rosanne Haggerty
Founder, Community Solutions
Amy Hall
Director of Social Consciousness, Eileen Fisher Company
Amy Hall
Director of Social Consciousness, EILEEN FISHER
Doug Hebert
Principal and Design Director, Savage Brands
Nicholas Higgins
Director of Outreach Services, Brooklyn Public Library
Jeffrey Hollender
Founder, Seventh Generation
Jennifer Holt
acting CEO, Building Markets
Gabrielle Horowitz-Prisco
Executive Director, The Lineage Project
Richard Hsu
Professor, Tongji University School of Design and Innovation
Inside Out Project
Rhea Keller and Luiz Gomez
Emily Jacobi
Executive Director, Digital Democracy
Jonathan Jacobs
The Vintage DJ
Nick Jehlen
Partner, The Action Mill
Tracy Johnson
Senior Program Officer, User Experience & Innovation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Laura Kadumus, Meghan Lazier, and Gina Kim
How an MFA from Design for Social Innovation at SVA prepares you to be a creative leader.
Yolanda Kakabadse
Minister of Environment for the Government of Ecuador
Ben Keesey
former CEO, Invisible Children, Inc.
Kerri Kelly
Founder, CTZNWELL
Ariel Kennan and Team
The Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity, NYC
Cheryl Kiser
Executive Director for The Babson Social Innovation Lab
Amanda Kizer
Manager, GIIRS Impact Rating program; B Lab
Matt Klein
Executive Director, Blue Ridge Foundation
Ben Knight
Co-Founder, Loomio
Nathaniel Koloc
Co-Founder and CEO, ReWork Jobs
Jesse Kornbluth
Head Butler; Author
Anjali Kumar
General Counsel, Warby Parker
Jessica Ladd
Founder, Sexual Health Innovations and The Social Innovation Lab
Amy Larkin
Founder, Nature Means Business
Steve Larosiliere
Founder and President, STOKED
Dr. Roberta Lee
Vice Chair, Department of Integrative Medicine, Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Dr. Laurie Leitch and Dr. Loree Sutton
Threshold GlobalWorks
David Levine
President, Sustainable Business Council
Lance Lindblom
retired President and CEO, The Nathan Cummings Foundation
Lance Lindblom
President, The Nathan Cummings Foundation
Rachel Lloyd
Founder and President, Girls Educational & Mentoring Services
Robin Low
Co-founder, Civil Innovation Lab
Nancy Lublin
Founder, DoSomething.org
Giorgia Lupi
Partner and Design Director, Accurat
Lynne Maguire
Innovation & Strategy Consultant (Healthcare and Nonprofits)
Nancy Mahon
Senior VP for Global Philanthropy and Corporate Citizenship
Sunitha Malieckal
Account Manager, Greyston Bakery
Gabriel Manga
Social Entrepreneurship Consultant
Chelsea Mauldin
Executive Director, Public Policy Lab
Erin Mazursky
Co-Founder and President, Rhize
Kevin McSpadden
Director of Marketing and Brand Strategy, Facebook
Paul D. Miller
DJ Spooky
Hirokazu Nagata & Bumpei Yorifuji
NPO Plus-Arts
Alexis Ohanian
Founder, Reddit
Bill Ottman
Founder and CEO, Minds
Ben Peterson
User Experience Designer, US Department of HUD
Jonas Piet
Partner & Lead Service Designer, InWithForward
Daniel Pinchbeck
Co-Founder, Center for Planetary Culture
Paul Polak
Co-founder, Windhorse International
Paul Polak
Founder, IDE and Design for the Other 90%
Dr. Paul Polak
Founder, IDE and Design for the Other 90%
Jake Porway
Founder, DataKind
Doug Powell
Distinguished Designer, IBM
Dave Rapaport
VP of Earth and Community Care, Aveda
Nathaniel Raymond
Director, Signal Program at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Jonathan Rich
Advocacy Strategist, Roberts+Rich
Michelle Risinger
Innovation Director & Human-Centered Design Technical Expert, PACT
Laurie Ristino
Director of Center for Agriculture & Food Systems, Vermont School of Law
David Rock
Director, NeuroLeadership Institute
Tayo Rockson
Host of the As Told By Nomads Podcast & CEO of UYD Management
Anne Rudig
Former Director of Communications, The Episcopal Church
Jason Rzepka
VP of Public Affairs, MTV
Jonah Sachs
CEO, Free Range Studios
Margaret Klein Salamon
Director, The Climate Mobilization
Susan Reilly Salgado
Managing Partner, Hospitality Quotient
Victoria Sammartino
Executive Director Emeritus, Voices UnBroken
Brad Schenck
Digital Director, Rainforest Action Network
Roddy Schrock
Director of Programs and Residencies, Eyebeam
Mark Seltman
Master Palmist
Shaolee Sen
Executive Director, Hot Bread Kitchen
Debika Shome
Deputy Director, Harmony Institute
Albert Shum
CVP of Design, Experiences & Devices Group, Microsoft
Santiago Siri
Founder and President, Democracy Earth Foundation
Ryan Smith
Co-Founder and CTO, Micromidas
William Spear
Founder, Second Response
Lina Srivastava
Principal, Lina Srivastava Consulting
Dave Stangis
VP Corporate Responsibility and Chief Sustainability Officer at Campbell Soup Company
Andy Stefanovich
Corporate Curator and Provocateur
Matt Stinchcomb
Executive Director, Etsy.org
Brett Stoudt
Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Kiko Suarez
VP of Communication and Innovation, Lumina Foundation
Elizabeth Talerman & Miguèle Issa
Partner, Brand and Organizational Strategy, Nucleus & Strategist / Designer, Nucleus
Henry Timms
Executive Director, 92nd Street Y
Emily Tow Jackson
Executive Director and President, The Tow Foundation
Lizz Winstead
Co-creator, The Daily Show
Naomi Weinstein
VP, Innovations Institute for Community Living (ICL)
Joey Womack
Founder / CEO, Amplify 4 Good Amplify 4 Good
Danielle Wood, PhD
Assistant Professor, MIT Media Lab; Director, Space Enabled Research Group
Casey Box and Jiten Yumnam
Land Is Life
Michael Murphy
MASS Design Group
Tracy Johnson
Gates Foundation
Jonathan McKay
Praekelt.org
Maggie Breslin
The Patient Revolution
Lori Melichar
Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Jake Porway
Founder, DataKind
Evan Thomas and Zoé Bezpalko
PSU SWEETLab and Autodesk Foundation
Anne LaFond
John Snow, Inc.
Marc Brackett
Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
Rosanne Haggerty
Community Solutions
Sundaa Bridgett-Jones
Rockefeller Foundation
Heather Fleming
Catapult Design
Doug Powell
IBM
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