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12:45pm EDT
Technology for Social Justice: Field Scan Workshop
Presenters 
Sasha Costanza-Chock (pronouns: they/them or she/her) is a scholar, activist, and media-maker, and currently Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT. They are a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Faculty Affiliate with the MIT Open Documentary Lab and the MIT Center for Civic Media, and creator of the MIT Codesign Studio (codesign.mit.edu). Their work focuses on social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice., MIT
Sasha Costanza-Chock (they/them or she/her) is Associate Professor of Civic Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They’re a scholar, activist, and media-maker who works with networked social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice. Sasha is a...
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Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow
Berhan is a social justice activist/organizer, a peace studies practitioner, and an avid advocate for open data and the open web. Berhan's research focuses on the digital gender divide and the role of technology in social justice. She is currently a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow...
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Helyx Chase Scearce Horwitz is a Philadelphia based video artist, technologist, and activist who is committed to the power of story. They began producing, editing, and directing video projects at the age of 14. Since then they have worked on documentaries, non-fiction and experimental narratives, multi-channel video installation, archival video presentations, and oral history video production. Their video art is built by, about, and for televisions and computers. They are currently employed as the Technology Manager at the Media Mobilizing Project., Media Mobilizing Project
Helyx Chase Scearce Horwitz is the Technology Manager at the Media Mobilizing Project. Based in their hometown of Philadelphia, Helyx is an independent video artist and activist who is passionate about storytelling as a means to draw connections. Their video art is built by, about...
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4:00pm EDT
Design Justice Network Planning Session
Presenters 
VICTORIA BARNETT is a freelance graphic & web designer and trainer. She spends her time designing, sharing and supporting various social movements with their communication and web presence, centered in community based social and environmental justice. She is interested in web design, education and has a background in print design. Victoria is active in JFAAP. You can find her at www.victoriabarnett.com., Design Justice Network
Victoria is a freelance graphic & web designer and trainer, who designs for social & environmental justice causes. She is an avid social media user, and spends her time designing, teaching and supporting various social movements. She is interested in web design, education and has...
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Sasha Costanza-Chock (pronouns: they/them or she/her) is a scholar, activist, and media-maker, and currently Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT. They are a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Faculty Affiliate with the MIT Open Documentary Lab and the MIT Center for Civic Media, and creator of the MIT Codesign Studio (codesign.mit.edu). Their work focuses on social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice., MIT
Sasha Costanza-Chock (they/them or she/her) is Associate Professor of Civic Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They’re a scholar, activist, and media-maker who works with networked social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice. Sasha is a...
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Design Justice Network
Taylor Stewart is a graphic artist currently residing in Metro Detroit. As a creative, Stewart seeks to find and guide others into sustainable understandings of self. Using creative expression as a tool of research, she continues to analysis, critique and educate on the complexities...
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Design Justice Network
Wes is a Detroit based graphic designer, fine artist, musician, and curator. His collective, Complex Movements, creates immersive interactive performances deeply rooted in social justice and movement building. He is co-founder of Emergence Media. He is co-founder of Talking Dolls...
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11:00am EDT
DIY Futures Through Architectural Zines
Presenters AJ
Architect, Web Model Dot Space
Aaron Jones is a registered architect, illustrator, and fabricator based in Detroit, MI. Aaron produces experimental theaters, pop-up structures, comic books, performance art, and critical writing in collaboration with leading creative professionals and organizations around the world...
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11:00am EDT
Grassroots Infographics: Designing Data Equity
Presenters JB
GRIDS: The Grassroots Information Design Studio
Jessica Bellamy is the owner of GRIDS: The Grassroots Information Design Studio. As a trained graphic designer, a former Neurodevelopmental Science research analyst at the University of Louisville, and as a local community organizer, Jessica combines grassroots organizing, research...
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4:00pm EDT
Rapid Accessibility Consultation
Presenters RA
University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Robert Adams is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; the Stamps School of Art and Design; and, Chair of the University of Michigan Initiative on Disability Studies.
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Accessibility Specialist, University of Michigan
Stephanie Rosen promotes the accessibility of scholarship, publishing, and teaching in her work as Accessibility Specialist at University of Michigan Library. Her background is in teaching and media organizing in the areas of queer, feminist, and disability thought. She has worked...
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4:00pm EDT
Design in Full Color: An Authentic Discussion on Diversity
Presenters 
Founder and Director, ADMe Detroit
She is the founder of Advertisers for Multicultural Emergence (ADMe), a collective for professionals of color in the marketing, advertising, and media industries with the Metro Detroit region. She is a MAIP alum and Challenge Detroit alum, who is passionate about using her talents...
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Detroit Asian Professionals
She is the founder of DAP (Detroit Asian Professionals), a nonprofit organization focused on building diverse mentorship, civic community, and professional networking in Metro-Detroit.
1:00pm EDT
Radical Visibility: QueerCrip Fashion and Performance
Presenters SC
Rebirth Garments
Sky Cubacub is a non-binary Filipinx human from Chicago, IL. Rebirth Garments is their line of wearables for the full spectrum of gender, size, and ability. They maintain the notion of Radical Visibility, a movement based on claiming our bodies and, through the use of bright colors...
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Compton Q and Rebirth Garments
Several forces fuel Compton Quashie as a Chicago based designer and artist. Through exploration and research they focus on issues surrounding cultural history and appropriation. Themes of Afrofuturism, gender fluidity, popular and material culture, historical narratives, and the rapidly...
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1:00pm EDT
Graphic Designers, Printers and Programmers Resist
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Danielle Aubert is a graphic designer interested in the intersection of graphic design, labor, materials, and software. She is currently researching the output of Fredy Perlman and the Detroit Printing Co-op (1969-1980). She participated in the Design Justice Network Gathering in 2016 and organized a session with Bianca Ibarlucea and Kikko Paradela at the 2017 AMC. She teaches at Wayne State University., Design Justice Network
Danielle Aubert is a graphic designer interested in the intersection of graphic design, labor, materials, and software. She is currently researching the output of Fredy Perlman and the Detroit Printing Co-op (1969-1980). Since January she has been working with What Is To Be Done...
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What Is To Be Done?
What Is To Be Done? is a loose coalition of graphic designers, printers and allies united against fascism. WITBD emerged out of a gathering of designers and printers who came together following the general election seeking ways to think through the present moment. Following that initial...
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What Is To Be Done?
Kikko is an independent designer based in Detroit. He teaches Interaction Design in the Graphic Design department at the College for Creative Studies. He is also a member of OmniCorpDetroit.
