academics

academics

Once upon a time, while getting my master’s degree at Baltimore’s Maryland Institute College of Art and dabbling in PhD anthropology classes at Johns Hopkins University, I dipped my toe into academics.

I co-researched and co-authored a pioneering critique of the then-budding practice of social design accompanied by a solutions framework that’s still being cited today.

My academic work represents the foundation of my thinking on equity in social change, theories of social change and the power systems through which they manifest.

Publications

  • My co-written graduate thesis work published in the peer-reviewed Design and Culture, volume 6.3.

  • A contribution to Developing Citizen Designers, a book intended to enable students, educators and designers in the early stages of their careers to learn and practice design in a socially responsible manner.

  • Discussing the prevalence of neocolonialism in the practice of social design and how to avoid it in The Social Design Reader, an anthology.